City and County of San Francisco Tuesday, April 21, 2020

>> President Yee:   good

afternoon and welcome to the

April 21, 2020, meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll.

>> Clerk:   thank you, Mr. President. [Roll Call]

.

>> Clerk:   Mr. President, you have a quorum.

>> President Yee:   thank you. Everybody, please place your hands over your heart, and

would you please join me in

reciting the pledge of allegiance.

[Pledge of allegiance]

>> President Yee:   thank you.

>> Supervisor Safai:   supervisor safai is present.

>> Clerk:   thank you, supervisor safai.

>> President Yee:   okay.

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Madam Clerk, are there any announcements?

>> Clerk:   yes, Mr. President.

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>> President Yee:   thank you, Madam Clerk.

Just a friendly reminder for

all the supervisors to mute

your microphone before we get

started to alleviate audio feedback. Before we start, I would like

to give you a few comments.

As all of us has heard, the

governor has announced the number of rooms available for

the homeless population in

california totaling around

10,000 rooms and hotel rooms,

and an additional 5,000 motel 6 rooms.

And at this point, the number

of rooms that are available have homeless in them number 4,000. When you look at it, it's

almost about 25% of the

homeless that are being housed

in hotel rooms in california.

San francisco is housing about

25% of the state, but that

doesn't actually -- [Inaudible]

>> President Yee:   so I'm just

going to point out that although we as a city want

things to move faster, and

we're hoping it'll get done.

Supervisor fewer, would you

like to give a comment on the P.O.C.?

>> Supervisor Fewer:   yes.

Thank you, President Yee.

Since my office first started

at the -- [Inaudible] Fuiava as >> Supervisor Fewer: highlighting the disproportionate impact of the

virus on our city's historically marginalized community. Last week, we open up a new site for the public in soma.

This weekend, ucsf will begin

testing thousands of residents

in a four-square-block section

of the mission -- [Inaudible]

>> Supervisor Fewer:   with you remain under both state and

local shelter in place orders. A week ago, san francisco had 987 confirmed cases and 15 confirmed deaths.

As of this morning, we have 1,231 confirmed cases and 20

confirmed deaths. As of this morning,

approximately 53% of our beds

remain available.

Thanks to the -- [Inaudible]

>> Supervisor Fewer:   -- to transport people directly from

the street to hotels as safely

and quickly as possible.

The A.O.C. Continues to provide

food secure services and sites that allow isolation.

I would like to extend my

thanks to the thousands of workers that are delivering groceries and other services to

contain the spread of this

virus and minimize loss of life.

While those of us working at

the city hall and A.O.C.

Provide these services, many do not have that privilege.

I look forward to continue to

working with my colleagues on

the board and work with the E.O.C. Staffing to continue to providing services.

We appreciate supervisor

mandelman and aaron mundee for

all their work last week.

Next week, we will be joined by

supervisor mar, allen wong, and jennifer lee. Please reach out to my office if you or your staff can join us.

Thank you for allowing me the time to provide this update, and I look forward to hearing

supervisor safai's update next week. President Yee, I think you're

on mute.

>> President Yee:   thank you, supervisor fewer. For tomorrow's E.O.C. Update,

is there somebody that's going to be a guest on there to talk about something?

>> Supervisor Fewer:   yes.

Tomorrow, the E.O.C. Has arranged for the doctor who set

up all the testing -- I'm

sorry, but I forget her name --

she's going to join us to answer all the questions we have on testing.

>> Clerk:   supervisor, is it

amy lockwood?

>> Supervisor Fewer:   Madam

Clerk, yes.

>> President Yee:   Madam Clerk,

let's go to the routine calendar. [Agenda Item Read].

>> President Yee:   okay. Colleagues, would anyone like

to sever any items from the consent agenda?

Okay, seeing none, Madam Clerk,

let's go to -- let's take roll

on the consent agenda, 1 through 5.

>> Clerk:   on items 1 through 5 -- [Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay. Thank you.

Seeing without objection, the

ordinances are finally passed.

Madam Clerk, let's go to our regular agenda. Please call item number 6.

>> Clerk:   item 6, ordinance to

amend the planning code to

modify the geary-masonic special use district regarding

minimum parking requirements,

ground floor ceiling heights,

and to allow payment of an inclusionary highway fee and to

make the appropriate findings.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Supervisor stefani?

>> Supervisor Stefani:   thank you, President Yee.

Colleagues, before you today is

an ordinance that would provide 144 affordable homes.

During last week's meeting, requests were made for the

requirements and various B.M.R. Options.

When this first came to me and

the request was made, I was not going to take this something that straight out of the mouth

of the developer was going to

go through my legislation.

I met with the project sponsor multiple times, and I asked the

joint development team at the

office of workforce development

to walk me through what objects

needed to be met to -- [Inaudible]

>> Supervisor Stefani:   I know

that the sponsor has proactively made a short

presentation that was made to supervisor ronen and supervisor

preston late last week. The best chance of delivering

the maximum amount of new

housing in my district,

including the maximum number of B.M.R. Units, is by approving the legislation today.

As it stands, with 100% commitment to union labor,

which is over 250 jobs, and the increase in construction pricing that has occurred over

the last 2.5 years -- actually,

which has been approved since

the site was permitted -- some

things have changed. Covid-19 will likely continue

to push construction pricing up

further as labor forces are catch exasperated with limiting

social distancing measures. For example, the number of

people allowed on the man lift

will decrease dramatically

which will slow the number of

workers moving on and off the site. Like you've heard before, I have been working on this

project for over six years, I

started during my time as a legislative aid and have continued as supervisor.

We have negotiations and renegotiationed every element

of this proposal, and if I thought we could get anything more, I would not be here,

asking for you to vote for this legislation today.

The site has been shutdown

since 2015 due to a rising cost

of restaurant operation in san francisco.

It is currently in a trap and

nuisance, endangering the residents. There are thousands of people

who are in desperate need of

accessible housing in this

neighborhood, and this project

will provide 101 homes for these people -- the result of

which will be a vacant site and a missed opportunity.

We are seeing this problem citywide. As of the latest planning

department report, there were

72,565 units of housing

entitled, 87% of which were not

under construction, so going to direct our housing project, it is not just enough to entitle

the housing, we have to

actually have the housing built.

i think in a perfect world, we would love to see 100% subsidized housing on every site, but building the project is a better alternative than letting the site sit vacant. Colleagues, I ask you to help

me build 101 homes in a

district that has historically

built very little housing, and

to create 250-plus union jobs,

and I want to thank my chief of

staff, daniel, for working so

hard on this legislation with me.

I ask that you vote yes on this legislation on its second reading, and thank you again for your time, and thank you to

the supervisors who met with

the developers last week, and I hope your questions were

answered. Thank you, President Yee.

>> President Yee:   okay. Any questions? Supervisor preston?

>> Supervisor Preston:   thank

you, President Yee, and thank you, supervisor stefani, for your work on this. Over the last week, as supervisor stefani mentioned, I had the opportunity to speak

with the developer and his representatives to learn more about the project behind this request to eliminate the on-site affordable housing requirement for this project. I want to just start by saying

I appreciate their time, their willingness to engage in a respectful dialogue on this

issue, and also, we've been in communication, my staff, with

supervisor stefani's staff, about ongoing questions and concerns, and we appreciate

their work on this, as well.

i want to remind folks this ordinance is not to allow how many units on this site, this

is to allow the developer to do

what's otherwise prohibited by

the special use district that was created specifically for

this project.

In this, the developer got the

right to quadruple the number of states units on this site, and the affordable units were required on-site as part of that deal and as part of that legislation.

As we've heard it, the

developer now claims because of

intervening delay and other

factors that on-site affordable

housing are not feasible and

proposes to build this project

without any affordable housing on-site. I have some questions for the deputy city attorney.

First off, some information was

presented to me by the sponsor

last week. I must say that I am baffled as

to how we as a supervisor can decide to amend a special use district at the request of a developer based on a claim of

financial need or hardship without any showing for all

colleagues to see before they vote or any leighs colleagues to see.

In the 1990s, the voters passed

the sunshine ordinance,

including section 67.32 that

quotes the city shall give no

subsidy, money, tax abatement

or services to any private

entity unless that entity

agrees in writing to provide

the city with financial projection, including profit and loss figures and annual

audit figures for the project

thereafter upon which the plans

the project is based.

I think this makes good sense so that we all get the relevant information before us before

making decisions that would benefit any particular developer.

Through the press, I would like

to ask deputy city attorney pearson whether this current situation applies to the current provision where the

developer pledges to amend a special use district to generate higher returns on a

specific use project, and if not, why not?

>> President Yee:   so deputy

city attorney ann pearson? >> yes.

Deputy city attorney ann pearson.

You are correct, supervisor

preston, that the project

sponsor May not ask for

subsidies unless they have a

certain percentage of housing units.

>> President Yee:   supervisor preston? Supervisor preston, are you wanting to speak?

You need to unmute yourself.

>> Supervisor Preston:   yes,

thank you, President Yee.

Thank you, Miss Pearson.

I -- so my understanding's

right, if a developer's

directly given land as a

subsidy, it would apply, but if

the property is either rezoned or the requirements changed,

your opinion is that's outside

the scope of the sunshine provision?

>> I think the sunshine

ordinance would be triggered if

the city were to give a

financial subsidy to the

developer, but not in this situation.

>> Supervisor Preston:   okay. Thank you for the clarification.

The other issue, just focusing

on the numbers, raised some

concerns for me about the intended use of this property

in order for it to pencil out and returns of the developer. The developer claims returns

just under 17% with all the affordable units on-site, and

that goes up to just under 20% if the B.M.R. Units are not

on-site, so that's the percent

we're dealing with here.

17% is not enough for the

sponsor to pencil out, so we're

told that we need to forgo the

affordable housing units. I think it's important for my colleagues to understand, all

of these are based on furnished rentals, and, in fact, the projected returns for this

project are, according to the

developer's own figures, 19.1% higher with the project, including furnished rentals, and that is the plan here, to make it pencil out.

So this raised some questions

for me as to the intended use

of the property, whether we're looking at a situation where

they May be used for short or

medium term occupancy that

generate higher returns,

whether by this or another owner.

So I wanted to ask deputy city attorney pearson, is there

anything in this law or in this

proposed ordinance that would

categorically the owner or

future owner from doing any

short or intermediate term

rentals at this site?

>> President Yee:   deputy city attorney?

>> I'm not aware of anything in this legislation that would

prohibit the owner from using

it for rentals, although

legislation has been introduced

that would prohibit short and

intermediate-term housing.

>> Supervisor Preston:   I think,

in conclusion, colleagues, we

need affordable housing at this

location. Beyond that, I think we need to

make sure that where we're

being asked to change zoning or

legislation or enhance the private returns, that we all

have a chance to review that in committee before reviewing it at the full board, and that the

public know the basis for any

such legislative action that benefits a specific individual

or a private entity.

So I, unfortunately, will not

be voting for this project, but

I appreciate the time and layout.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Thank you. Supervisor safai?

>> Supervisor Safai:   thank you, Mr. Chair.

Just wanted to thank supervisor stefani today for the information that was laid out.

I think one thing to know about these projects is, particularly when you're dealing with a project that has a long time

frame, is that a point of departure doesn't always end with a final product, and a lot has changed in the last six years in terms of cost, in

terms of the market, and then, most recently, as we all know,

the pandemic that we're living

through. one thing that I wanted to say on the record that I thought

was really important because I

think there's been some discussion about this today,

the commitment to 100%

affordable -- excuse me -- 100%

union labor on this project is a crucial element.

It's one of these things in

this market to go out and incurring debt and being able to finance projects. When you have a commitment

letter from a union that's a

funding source, it puts you in a category in this crisis all by itself.

Without that commitment to 100% union labor, you might not have a fundable project in terms of the ability to go out on the private markets and get debt.

We're not talking about a city subsidy.

We're not talking about city credits, we're not talking

about government revenue, we're not talking about a public source, we're talking about hundreds of millions of investment from the private

market, and in these uncertain

times, as supervisor stefani

said last week, any doubt

prohibits that and hinders the ability to get that.

But the fact that this is a

100% union labor is huk, and I

just want to commend supervisor

stefani for all the work that she's done in getting this over the finish line.

I think that we would all like to see affordable housing on

this site, but the $400 million

contributed to this project will create affordable housing.

I think that it could be in supervisor preston's district,

supervisor stefani, or supervisor fewer's district,

and I think they've all

committed to that, so I'm going

to let supervisor peskin speak about the last item that I was

going to talk about in the intermediate rentals because I

know his legislation would deal

with that subject.

Thank you, Mr. President.

>> President Yee:   sure.

Supervisor

peskin?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you, President Yee and

supervisor stefani.

First, I want to acknowledge

some of the words that

supervisor preston was saying that were referred to at the

last meeting as trust by verify. It's a

if a majority of this body agrees, and I here by seek all of your sponsorship, there is

no way that if that legislation

becomes law that any corporate rentals will be able to happen at the -- depending on what you

want to call it, lucky penny,

copper penny, the laurel site.

So I fully intend to pass that legislation.

I want to thank supervisor peskin for being a sponsor of

that legislation and ask you to

affix your names to that legislation.

That would obviate any fears of

this being used for short-term

rentals.

>> President Yee:   thank you. Supervisor stefani?

>> Supervisor Stefani:   the

units will be 350 square feet,

will be furnished for murphy beds.

Used as housing for students,

nurses, people who might come and go. This will not be a project that

will be leased for master use.

There are 68 studios in the makeup of this house. Only 40 of them will have the

murphy beds, and what I just

mentioned, so this is not a

case of corporate housing run amok. I feel comfortable with it.

It's something, like I said, I

went over with the office of

corporate and workforce housing. I urge your support, and with that, I'd like to call the question.

>> President Yee:   before we

call the question, I'll just

make a quick comment.

The concern about the corporate

rental, supervisor peskin,

thank you for moving that potential legislation through.

I'd also like to be a cosponsor

of that, so at this point,

supervisor -- I mean, mat am

clerk, can you call the roll.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank

you, Mr. President.

>> Clerk:   on item 6 -- [Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are ten ayes, with one no, with supervisor

preston in the dissent.

>> President Yee:   okay. This item is finally passed with a 10-1 vote.

Madam Clerk, can you please

call item 7.

>> Clerk:   item 7 is an

ordinance amending the planning code to require consideration

of smaller commercial spaces when creating large lots,

limiting lost frantages to 50 feet on ocean avenue.

>> President Yee:   okay. madam clerk, please call the roll.

>> Clerk:   on item 7 --

[Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay. Without objection, this item is passed unanimously. Madam Clerk, please call item 8.

>> Clerk:   item 8 is an ordinance to amend the planning

code and the zoning map to create the bayview industrial

triangle cannabis restricted use district, to affirm the ceqa determination, and to make

the appropriate findings.

>> President Yee:   okay. Madam Clerk, please call the roll on this item.

>> Clerk:   on item 8 -- [Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are ten ayes, one no, with supervisor mandelman in the dissent.

>> President Yee:   colleagues,

this item is passed by a 10-1 vote.

Madam Clerk, let's go to our new business. Please call the next item.

>> Clerk:   item 9 is a

resolution to retroactively authorize the office of the

treasurer and tax collector to

expand and accept a $250,000

grant from policylink for the purpose of designing skpimp and implementing a national initiative to reform fines and fees from December 1, 2019

through July 31, 2021.

>> President Yee:   okay. Madam Clerk, will you please

call the roll on this item.

>> Clerk:   on item 9 -- [Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay. Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam Clerk, can you please

call items 10 and 11 together.

>> Clerk:   items 10 and 11 are being called together. Here, we had two resolutions

that retroactively authorized the office of the district

attorney to accept and expend

grants from the california governor's office of emergency services.

Item 10 authorizes approximately 163,000 for the

innovative response to marginalized victims' programs.

And item 11, a resolution for

the elder abuse grant, both for

the period of January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Madam Clerk, can you please

call the roll on both items.

>> Clerk:   on items 10 and 11 --

[Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay. Without objections, the resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madam Clerk, let's go to the

next item.

>> Clerk:   item 12 is a resolution to approve and

authorize the execution of a

limited payment guaranty for

the benefit of silicon valley

bank in an amount not to exceed $44,615,000 plus accrued

interest and any other costs,

and a limited payment guaranty for

in an amount not to exceed $2,600,000.

>> President Yee:   okay. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll.

>> Clerk:   on item 12 -- [Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 1 is -- 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay.

The resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam Clerk, can you please

call the next item.

>> Clerk:   item 13 is a

resolution renaming the 200

block of steuart street to

steuart lane to honor william m.Steuart, and to further

continue his legacy and contributions he has made to the city and county of san francisco.

>> President Yee:   okay. Madam Clerk, will you please

call the roll.

>> Clerk:   on item 13 -- [Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay. Then without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously.

Madam Clerk, let's call items

14 and 15 together.

>> Clerk:   items 14 and 15 are two resolutions that pertain to the subject matter of two separate liquor licenses. For item 14, it determines that

the issuance of a type 21

off-sale general beer and wine

and distilled spirits liquor

license to the epicurean

traitor, L.L.C., doing business

as the epicurean trader,

located at one ferry building, will serve the public convenience, and item 15, resolution determining that the

transfer of a type-20 off-sale

beer and win liquor license to

dp & dk incident vestments, inc.

doing business as kal's

neighborhood market, located at

1409 19 avenue will serve the

public convenience or necessity.

>> President Yee:   okay. On those items, Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll.

>> Clerk:   on items 14 and 15 -- [Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted unanimously.

Madam Clerk, let's go to the next item.

>> Clerk:   item 16 was considered by the government audit and oversight committee

at a regular meeting on April

16 and was forwarded as a

committee report with a

recommendation and has a new title.

Item 17 is an emergency ordinance to temporarily prohibit rent increases that

would otherwise be permitted

under the ad striv code, due to

-- administrative code due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Pursuant to charter, section 2.107, this matter requires the

affirmative vote of two dlsh thirds dlsh

-- two-thirts of the

ds of the board of

supervisors, eight votes, for passage.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Madam Clerk, would you please

call the roll.

>> Clerk:   on items 16 and 17 -- [Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Then, without objection, this

item is passed unanimously.

Madam Clerk, call item 17.

>> Clerk:   item 17 is an emergency ordinance to

temporarily prohibit rent increases that would otherwise be permitted under the

administrative code due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Pursuant to charter, section 2.107, this matter requires the

affirmative vote of two-thirds

of the board of supervisors, or

eight votes, for passage.

>> President Yee:   thank you.

Supervisor peskin?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you, President Yee. I want to thank the cosponsors

of this passage, and I want to

acknowledge not only the

tenants community but the san francisco apartment association

that actually published this

advice to landlords in san

francisco out of -- san francisco.

Out of an abundance of caution,

I presented this before some

bone headed landlord mussed

this up, and I hope we get the requisite eight votes.

>> President Yee:   okay. Supervisor fewer?

>> Supervisor Fewer:   thank you,

Mr. President.

I think we'd all agree that an emergency measure like this

shouldn't be necessary, and

that most landlords would not even think about raising rent on their tenants in a time like

this, but unfortunately, we

know that there are those that

would still do that, and this ordinance completely takes rent

increases off the table.

This ordinance complements

efforts as well as our local

eviction moratorium to keep tenants from accumulating debt. I hope we can count on everyone's support. Thank you.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you, supervisor fewer.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Madam Clerk, go ahead and call the roll.

>> Clerk:   on item 17 --

[Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Then without objection, this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. Madam Clerk, let's go to roll call for introductions.

>> Clerk:   first up to introduce new business is supervisor safai.

>> Supervisor Safai:   thank you,

Madam Clerk.

Can I do an in memory iam and

then go after supervisor peskin speaks?

>> Clerk:   okay.

>> Supervisor Safai:   so today,

colleagues, I'd like to end our

meeting in memoriam for Mr.

Luis echegoyan.

He was born in 1938 in el

salvador and just recently passed away. He was

he is survived by his children

and grandchildren, and their children.

Mr. Echegoyan was a titan in

the hispanic community. He made use of his celebrity

status to raise awareness on

social justice issues specifically to the latino community and was very committed to projects that

helped underserved latinos and

was referred to back in the day

as the el calde of the mission,

which many people have

subsequently taken on the title, but he was at that time.

He collaborated with many people and advanced projects

that served latinos, and he

fomented a sense of leadership

and social justice issues. His high profile earned him

much respect, and he coupled his visibility with passion. His career in acting led him to

california, where he emerged as

a versatile entertainer, master

of ceremonies, poet, and activist. Prior to his work on

television, his baritone voice is well known by those who

heard him on a variety of

spanish speaking stations in the bay area.

He joined channel 14 and became

a main stay on the weekday

evenings for the spanish

newscast starting in 2007. He's the first latino to

receive an emmy award, and was

a member of the nataf board of

broadcasters and journalism

scholarship awards for latino students.

He also hosted a talk show on saturdays where he would feature community leaders

servicing the latino community.

He was very active in countless

nonprofit organizations that helped bay area latinos and

sought after as a speaker and master of ceremonies at

freelance events, and he was

the principle owner of hispanic multimedia.

He was known for his poetry,

his collaborations, and his

commitment to the hispanic community.

he was known for his regal

presence, his elegant, his

humor, his creativity, and his

imagination and intellect. He could talk to you on any

subject and doted on his large

library of books on a wide variety of subjects.

He often recited reuben dario's

poetry at public events.

Prior to retirement, he could

whip up a meal from ordinary

ingredients, and was known as

nani to his grand kids. He was a dedicated husband and

was someone that led by example, and for all his family members to follow, and his legacy will be remembered. [Please stand by]

-- or regular benefits while

they're on active duty status.

These same members of the

militaries could be get the

benefits for 9/11 response and

conflict in iraq or related extraordinary circumstances. However, because covid-19

response is not explicitly

spelled out in the annual salary ordinance, they have been called

into active duty and are being shortchanged. So today I'm introducing an

ordinance to amend the salary ordinance to allow these individuals to receive the difference between the amount of the individual's gross military pay and the amount of gross pay that the individual would have

received as a city officer or employee. Had that officer or employee worked his or her normal schedule, benefits and retirement credit. I believe that everyone is fighting the covid-19 pandemic

wherever they are is fighting to save us all. If any community in this country

is exposed, we are all exposed. Those who have been called into active duty for covid-19 relief should receive the same benefits

as those in active duty relief efforts.

These individuals who are bravely keeping our communities

safe in the most destructive

event in our lifetime should not have their pay diminished. Additionally I request that the President Waive the 30-day requirement due to the time-sensitive nature of this legislation. Every week that goes by these individuals are further penalized while they work to defeat this pandemic.

I'd like to thank andy molan and

ann pierson and ann stotan for moving so quickly on this and getting this ordinance ready in one week. I introduce a resolution today to call on the federal government to increase funding

to the paycheck protection program for oversight and to take steps to ensure that the financial institutions work with

small businesses so they can

actually access this vital resource. As part of the federal cares act

to address the threats of the covid-19 pandemic, the program launched on April 3rd to provide relief to small businesses. It was designed to help businesses with 500 or fewer employees by extending forgivable loans to those businesses that kept workers on the payroll in order to prevent mass layoffs. unfortunately, we have seen the trump administration bungle the rollout of this critical program

over the course of this month. While many eligible small businesses in san francisco and across the united states applied

to the program, a survey of

about 300,000 businesses found over a quarter of those who attempted to apply were unable

to successfully submit applications.

And bank -- banks and credit

unions across the country are

unable to process before funds were exhausted less than two weeks after the applications opened. The average award amount was over $2

200,000. And the trump administration awarded $20 million to the

parent company of riewses chris steakhouse and $10 million to

potbelly and $10 million to shake shack. And I want to recognize shake shack who opened up a location

in district 2 for acknowledging

that the program is administered unfairly and committing to return the $10 million that it received. It's reported that congress and the trump administration are

nearing a deal to provide $ $300 billion in additional funding for this program. While it is essential that funding for this program is

increased, the federal government -- the federal government must do better for our small businesses and it must act fast.

In the next iteration, the paycheck protection program absolutely must include stricter oversight from the trump administration, and that administration must ensure that financial institutions are

prepared to help small businesses navigate and access this resource. Small businesses are struggling more than ever as we all know and they deserve nothing less. And I want to thank sam bennett

in my office for pulling this

together.

>> Clerk:   thank you.

Supervisor yee?

>> President Yee:   thank you, Madam Clerk.

So, colleagues, friday

April 24th is going to mark

the 105th commemoration of the armenian genocide. The armenian genocide is

recognized as the worst genocide

of the 20th century. 1.5 million lives estimated were violently taken at the hands of

the turkish government between

1915 and 1923.

This trauma continues as we

still have those that were denying that this ever happened. For over 20 years, the board of

supervisors passed resolutions

commemorating the armenian genocide and called upon the

united states congress to

formally recognize this historic atrocity.

Last year for the first time,

the united states representatives overwhelmingly

passed the armenian genocide resolution. This is the first time that

congress has ever recognized the armenian genocide, despite the

objection of the white house administration. It is clear that after a century

of advocacy that there is still

a need to educate and to speak truth to the terrible actions of

the past in order to forge a

future of human rights to be held globally.

This year the annual commemoration will not be able

to take place physically but the

armenian community has organized commemorations to stream on

friday, April 24th, starting

at 7:00 P.M. On facebook and E.U.

Youtube.

And as you can see that's the flyer that gives you all of the information and I highly encourage all of my colleagues and the members of the public to attend this.

And we will not be introducing a formal resolution this year.

Supervisor peskin and I will be

virtually delivering a proclamation on behalf of this board of supervisors to honor

the work of the armenian

genocide commemorative committee during this important year of remembrance.

I also want to share that as

part of this that the light it

blue campaign, the council of armenian/american organizations

of northern california will be

illuminating the iconic cross and make it blue on friday

night, the day of the commemoration. To show their support for the health care professionals and

essential frontline workers

serving all of us during the covid-19 pandemic.

On behalf of the board, I thank

the armenian genocide commemorative committee for

coming together to unite us for peace and reflection. Today I also will be introducing

a resolution on behalf of the

city administrator's office.

And you should take the flier down since I'm talking about something else -- thank you. I'm introducing a resolution on

behalf of the city administrator's office to have the combined charities campaign

for the city and county of san francisco. Every fall the city and county of san francisco employees

participate in the heart of the

city combined charity campaign

to raise money for non-profit organizations in our communities. Last year this program raised

more than $1.2 million for over

1,200 non-profit organizations

in our community. Nearly 4,000 city employees participated in the campaign. Today's legislation is required

by ordinance to certify the determination of the city and

the administrator's office to

meet the criteria to participate

in the 2020 fundraising campaign. The ordinance also dictates that

this list was certified by May 1

of this year and given the deadline, I'll refer this item

to next week's -- to next week's adoption of our committee reference agenda.

I know that our city employees have been selfless during this

time of crisis and I hope that with this year's fundraising

campaign that we will continue

to contribute to the many worthy

causes in the community when our support is needed most.

I also want to challenge the

board of supervisors, department one as supervisor peskin would

like to call us, to rise to the

challenge, and to sign up as

many members and staff as

possible for the combined

charities campaign for 2020. Thank you, colleagues.

And the rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   thank you, . Supervisor fewer.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   today I'm introducing a resolution to look

at the role of our release and recovery plan during and after

the covid-19 crisis.

The $450 billion in funds for

small businesses through the

congress stimulus package was an important start as municipalities and states struggle to provide relief with less revenue.

But the funds ran out in only

two weeks and many businesses

face obstacles to assessing funds. Some of the obstacles are created by the banks themselves. Major concerns have arisen about

the implementation of the

P.P.P., and included a criteria for application created by the banks and the decisions of the distribution of funds.

Those awarded with funds include large chain restaurants with over 5,000 employees and construction businesses that

have deemed to be essential and many smaller businesses found themselves locked out of the application process. And california received the

lowest rate of distribution of all 50 states.

Such concerns extend not only to loan programs designed by congress but to large commercial

banks that evidence suggests in

recent lawsuits allege that there were key existing relationships with their biggest borrowers. As congress looks to distribute

another $300 billion in loan funds, two democratic lawmakers are advocating for more of the funds to be directed to small businesses without existing banking relationships as well as

rural areas and people of color who own small businesses.

Not only should we support this push within congress but we should call on congress to provide greater oversight, guidance and accountability for

the banks as they disburse these

funds to ensure that it is done

fairly and equitably.

Big banks have long been critiqued for their role in and during the economic crisis,

including the 2008-2009 recession where large commercial banks and auto companies

received a bailout of over $400 billion from the federal government.

I worry that the role of the

large commercial banks in

unequally distributing P.P.P.

Loans show that they are ill-equipped to give fair leadership during this or any economic crisis.

It is the small local banks and credit unions and the financial institutions that are responsive

to the needs of local businesses

and resident customers through

this financial institutions

those often have limitations on capacity, which brings us back to the need for public banking

to provide an alternate to these

large commercial banks. Alternative to these large commercial banks. In a public bank it could be the

mechanism to allow for low cost

lending at a local level to

support our restaurants and the small business corridors.

And a public bank can lay the

foundation for more equitable

local economy by financing projects and having local infrastructure, creating good-paying and union jobs.

If we had a public bank already

in place we would be in a better position to respond like this, like the bank of north dakota

who has a robust disaster relief lending program.

And the development of a local, regional or a state public banking model now is responsible

and strategic but it will require capitalization funds from the federal government. This calls on congress to

support a new stimulus package that includes increased relief funding for small businesses and local governments, with greater guidance for banking regarding fund distribution and to support the development of local and

regional public banks to making available federal funding for --

making available federal funding for capitalization.

Thanks to jackie fielder and the

bank advocates at a local and national level with working with my office on this. And for supervisor hillary ronen

and the staff for their collaborations and my deep

thanks to my staff member for

being the voice behind this, I

would say that is ever since I think that came into office and

trying to actually actualize a public bank for the city and

county of san francisco.

Colleagues, today I have to

adjourn today's meeting in

remember of Miss Patsy, she was

born March 7, 1940 in california.

She and moses married May 3,

1964 and had three daughters.

Stacy nolan and aaron.

They opened up maschoci sweet

shop in 1964 where she worked

every day, even through her treatment. She loved spending time with her

kids and grandkids, and cherished the times of all of them running around like crazy

at christmas and competing in

laser games, adults included.

She enjoyed going to lake tahoe

with her grandchildren and the arcades -- and would spend hours at the arcade and getting excited when large chunks of coins would fall and he could

give all of her tickets to the grandkids.

And she was a hard-working and kindest grandma that there ever was. She'll be missed for her crazy saran wrap and her ziploc bagging of everything and her

die-hard love for cheerios and a

way that she could watch soap operas for hours on end.

She had the funnest eating

habits and always taking the

seeds off her hamburger buns and

eating donuts with a spoon. And whenever you asked her where

she would -- why she would do something strange with her food,

she would laugh and say as things

that would only be described as T.M.I. They got to know her rich cultural heritage in japan town

and through the labor of love as the sweet shop. And it became recognized

formally as a native business for their amazing contributions

to the city.

The sweet stop has been an

institution in japan town for over 46 years.

And the bakery creates the loving sweet coffee cake and the treats that have become a staple

and a tradition for many celebrations and milestones.

In fact, I ordered a full sheet

of the coffee crunch cake for my

aide's baby shower and he had to order ahead because they sell out quickly each morning. I have the distinct pleasure of

meeting patsy last year at the

small business commission.

And the sweet stop shop was considered for a business nomination and a sense of pride and joy that the family shared

at that moment combined with the love they had, not only for the business but for the community

as a whole. Patsy was such a delight in the lives of everyone that she knew and she will be dearly be missed.

May she rest in sweet peace. The rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   thank you, supervisor fewer.

Supervisor haney.

>> Supervisor Haney:   thank you, Madam Clerk. I have a few hearings to

introduce and resolutions.

First, as you all know, our san francisco unified school district and city college have

both had a disruptions related

to covid-19 and are doing what

they can to continue learning for their students. I'm calling a hearing on the impacts of covid-19 on the san francisco unified school

district and on city college san francisco. as chair of the joint schools

and city college committee, this

hearing will -- I hope that this hearing will serve to both update the city and the public

on how covid-19 has impacted the

schedules, policies and the provisions. Of course, its education and services. What schools are doing to protect both students and staff during the pandemic. How schools are continuing to

serve students and families,

especially those that are most marginalized and vulnerable.

And what plans are being made to ensure ongoing educational goals are met. And, additionally, we hope to hear how the city can best support the schools and what resources are required to ensure that they are able to succeed in

their vital role as educational institutions.

I am also introducing a hearing

on our capacity for testing

related to covid-19.

Many of us have had extensive

questions come to us from our constituents and we've had questions ourselves about the

city's policies, approaches and

capacity for covid-19 testing.

We've heard that we are testing just 400 people a day. But we haven't gotten clear answers on what our true

capacity for testing is, what

are the barriers that exist for

mass testing, how our priorities shifting based on multiple

outbreaks and in facilities and

new data about neighborhoods and communities that have been disproportionately impacted.

And how can we ensure that

vulnerable populations have adequate access to testing? And with all of this what is our

role to better support this work

as the board of supervisors. We absolutely want to make sure

that people have access to testing. We're all hearing that moving forward that the way that we are

going to begin to go to the next stage of responding to this

crisis is not only testing but

also to much more extensive testing.

So we are requesting D.P.H.,

D.M. And H.S.H. And the mayor's

office as well as uscff and the hospital council and the clinic consortium to present. And I look forward to having a productive conversation with our departments and the board.

I'm also introducing a hearing

on our progress and our approach

to procuring hotel rooms for

residents of our city that are vulnerable or otherwise need to have a room to be able to shelter in place. Thanks to the support of the entire board and the emergency

ordinance to procure 8,250 rooms this past last week and

presumably will go into effect this weekend, in order to

receive a public update about progress in meeting the mandates

in the ordinance as well as understanding the current operations and barriers and staffing, I'm introducing a key hearing co-sponsored by

supervisors ronen and peskin and

walton and asking that the hotels report.

Despite more than a month of

conversation, advocacy, organizing efforts by all of us,

there are still less than 900

individuals from shelters and s.R.O.S in private hotel rooms. Our shelters and S.R.O.S are still too crowded and, unfortunately, as we have seen

more and more, outbreaks are happening and are likely to

happen if we don't move quicker.

Few shelter operators with expert knowledge of their clients have been fully engaged

to work in and to build programs. And many of us have started to

receive questions from the D.S.W.S and our labor partners about how this program is operating and what all of us can do to make sure that it's effective, successful, and that

it fully protects both those who are being brought into the

hotels as well as the people who are working there.

This has been a huge focus --

area of focus and advocacy by the board and the public and I

look forward to a more robust public hearing and conversation shortly.

I'm also introducing a

resolution to call on I.C.E. To

release the longest detained transgender asylum seeker in the

united states, kelly gonzalez-guilar. Kelly is a transgender woman

from honduras who left at age 12

due to physical and psychological abuse related to

her gender identity. She fled to mexico where she

endured even more abuse and survived sexual violence and sex trafficking and labor trafficking and more. And she sought refuge in the united states at age 17 and

locked in an immigration jail where she was released briefly and then arrested again and put

in I.C.E. Detention. She's never been convicted of any charges, and despite this fact she is currently held at

the sabola correctional center in new new mexico where she's held in immigration jails for more than two years.

During her time at this center,

she was held in solitary

confinement for four months due to her gender identity. She was often locked down for hours out of the day.

Her only human contact was when the guards would pass through to

her a slot in the door.

Solitary confinement is found to take a heavy psychological and physical toll on people and is classified as torture. She's represented by attorneys at the national immigrant justice center with support from

the aclu and the coalition.

In December 2019, I.C.E. Denied kelly's request for parole.

Despite the support that she has waiting in oakland and I.C.E. Gave no reason as to why they denied the request.

But she was reported to be sent

to honduras which has a record

of violence against gay and bisexual and transgender people.

I ask that we as a board support

kelly gonzalez-aguilar and her

sponsors and call for I.C.E. To release kelly into the custody

of the sponsors.

Lastly, I have a resolution

which -- here we are -- I have a

resolution which recognizes and affirms national sexual assault

awareness and prevention month.

With the current shelter-in-place orders, victims

of violence are literally in many cases trapped with their abusers at a time when so many

of our city's resources are to

solve the overarching pandemic and you can't lose sight of

those who are at risk of sexual violence. The national alliance to end sexual violence has seen increased demand in 50% of its

programs and we're seeing calls and chats to sexual assault and domestic violence hotlines.

And the alliance to end sexual

violence had a survey on the

impact of covid-19 on the efforts of rape crisis centers for survivors and they have seen

a 40% increase in demand.

Reports are being filed that vulnerable people are being supported into survival sex in order to keep their housing. Landlords have been taking

advantage of financial hardships of many tenants in some cases.

And the need for greater

outreach, education, and access

to services and supports is as great as ever. April is sexual assault awareness month. And it's important that we as a city take the opportunity to

recommit ourselves to having

zero tolerance approach when it comes to sexual assault and violence and we do all that we can to raise awareness on this issue and to highlight the resources that are available. Sexual violence is a public health issue that has been and

continues to be impacted by the pandemic. And during this crisis sexual

assault survivors need to know that their government is there to serve and to protect them. They often need access to

resources and information and during this time those can be

even be more difficult to

provide and ensure that are available. I want to thank my co-sponsors

on this, supervisors stefani and

ronen and, again, acknowledge

that this is sexual assault awareness and prevention month. We're in an especially hard time for people who May be at risk or

are themselves are survivors and our city needs to do more to step up and to support people who are at risk. With that

the rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   supervisor mandelman.

>> Supervisor Mandelman:   thank you, Madam Clerk. Colleagues, today I'm introducing a resolution to put the board of supervisors on

record in support of the safe

sleeping sites and shelter

people to have social distancing and improve san station

sanitation and it includes not clearing encampments and encouraging people staying in encampments to set up their tents and sleeping quarters with sufficient space

between them and ensuring nearby accessible and adequately stopped restroom facilities.

Following this guidance has led

to day-to-day changes in the

city's response to homelessness. The healthy streets operation

center has refocused efforts on

covid-19 and is trying, though

with mixed success, to keep the encampment areas clean and ensure that the sidewalks are kept clear and encourage people

to stay one person per tent and tents at least six feet apart. at the same time in the castro and many other neighborhoods of san francisco, tent encampments

are growing, largely without

social distancing and/or access

to hygiene.

Even prior to covid-19, the de facto city approach to management of people camping in neighborhoods was inhumane to

those seeking shelter, frustrating for neighbors and how it impacted neighborhoods,

and impossible for outreach

workers and police to implement effectively.

There's a never-ending game of whack-a-mole and people from one block or corner only to see a

new encampment pop up a block away. Covid-19 has brought that sad game to the end, at least for the moment, and offers us an opportunity to pilot new and different strategies to provide

safer sleeping alternatives to those unsheltered people for whom we do not currently have an available apartment, hotel room,

or shelter. My office is working with the

city departments on a place for safe camping sites for covid-19 and I've been working with the city administration to find an appropriate location to open up a safe sleeping site in district

8 in response to the current public health crisis. It's my hope that this resolution will add political support and urgency to the work already underway to create these sites.

This resolution urges that the

city plan for and expeditiously

establish safe sleeping sites in vacant parking lots and other

appropriate spaces. it would follow the best practices and maintaining adequate social distancing and providing access to sanitation and facilities and food and water. Any such site would be subject

to a safety plan with 24/7 staffing, janitorial services and such other services that May be necessary and feasible to maintain the health and the safety of those at the site and the surrounding neighborhoods. I want to thank my colleague

dean preston for co-sponsoring this resolution and the fine

folks at H.S.H. And H.S.A. And the mayor's office for a willingness to engage on these

ideas in the past many months

and their heroic work for the unhoused population in this very difficult moment. And I thank the leaders pushing for safe sleeping sites even prior to covid-19 and to continue to work with and to push me and my office.

And I want to thank the office

for their work on this

resolution and making effective responses to this. And I look forward to working with the departments and the

neighbors to open up a safe

sleeping site at the castro area soon -- as soon as possible.

And the rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   thank you, supervisor mandelman.

Supervisor mar. >> submit.

>> Clerk:   thank you.

Supervisor peskin.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   let me

take myself off of mute, thank you, Madam Clerk.

I want to start my roll call by thanking President Yee for

including me in the armenian genocide commemoration and then

as referenced earlier by

supervisor safai, today together

with supervisor mandelman, we are introducing permanent

legislation as it regards

capping the delivery of service

apps like uber eats and grubhub. And, of course, later on today's agenda, we're voting to concur

with the mayor's nine supplemental declaration of

emergency which places a 15% cap

on the commissions that these

delivery services can charge. And as I had mentioned a couple weeks ago at the board of supervisors, my office and I

want to thank my legislative aide lee.

Lee hefner working with

supervisor safai and mandelman

on legislation, and if anything

the current emergency has drawn

into stark contrast the need for

a responsive -- a responsible regulatory regiment in this area. During the crisis as these

companies have reached enormous

amounts of revenue, they have

had calls they had assessed against essential restaurants and this is a time when

restaurants and their staff were already struggling.

Beyond that, the same outfits have fought tooth and nail for any effort to properly classify

their delivery workers as employees. The legislation that we're

bringing forth today proposes a

commission cap at 10% as I had mentioned and further prohibits these platforms from fixing

prices in their apps. Essentially prohibiting restaurants from recovering that commission through a higher sale

price in the app. I think this is straightforward and sensible legislation.

I want to thank the mayor for

her supplemental declaration. It is long overdue.

And I want to note that the counterparts in new york city

are well ahead of us. They already have done similar

legislation before covid-19 emergency.

Also relevant is our own survey responses from the delivery and

ride hail workers that was

released, which indicates that

58% of workers report not

getting gloves and sanitizing

products from the delivery

service apps.

81% reported that phone

companies are not requiring companies to report if they're sick before they accept.

73% report that apps are not

providing financial support if

they're exposed or contract covid-19.

I want to really thank the golden gate restaurant association and laurie thomas in particular, and the numerous neighborhood groups and the individual merchants who have been calling on all of our offices for this relief.

And I'll add that when we were

campaigning across the city for proposition d, this is probably the most frequent complaint that we heard from merchants across the city.

I also want to give a nod to environmental advocates who have

highlighted the increase waste

implications of the convenience economy.

Next, I would like to move on to

single resident occupancy

hotels, S.R.O.S. As you know I represent and

supervisor ronen and supervisor haney represent districts with a

high number of low-income

tenants in S.R.O.S, which has

meant that the time and legislative work over many years with the purpose of protecting

vulnerable S.R.O. Tenants with

affordable housing stock.

A number of years ago we passed

landmark legislation to stop the

use of municipal rooms for S.R.O. Operators to force tenants to leave before they had been in the unit for 30 days and tell them to come back and to take a different unit after a few days off, in order to keep them from establishing rent

control tenancies.

And more S.R.O.S broader protections were in that legislation. Most S.R.O.S have a mix of

residential and tourist units,

all set forth in a piece of

40-year-old legislation in the

administrative code. For protections for residential units have proven quite

difficult to enforce because

S.R.O. Landlords move the rooms -- move the tenants around in the rooms.

This legislation is as you all

know currently the subject of litigation and enforcement hearings by the department of building inspection have been

put on hold.

So, meanwhile, the warehousing

of precious low-income housing

units continue, even though rentals are allowed to be shown and leased.

I am quite concerned by the

increase in calls at our office,

with respect to S.R.O. Operators and the short-term tenants during the covid-19 crisis for

any number of reasons.

And the lack of enforcement.

Neither the mayor's supplemental

declaration nor the declaration

that we will discuss as item 26

on today's calendar specifically addresses the plight of these residents who reside in buildings that have a mix of

tourist and residential units.

And, quite frankly, this is something that we could have and

should have addressed earlier

before tenants started being displaced. As I said, we have received a

number of complaints from -- not

only from S.R.O. Tenants but

from the S.R.O. Collaboratives

that -- either the sfpd has responded to. Obviously this is a gross

violation of their rights and particularly upsetting and offensive, given that the city has stopped offering shelter to residents who have been kicked

out on to the street who might

have normally gone through an

access point to get a shelter bed. So today I'm introducing emergency legislation to create

a process for checking S.R.O. Residences during this time as well as creating guidance and

support for the non-profit providers and S.R.O. Collaboratives who have been doing the majority of the work

on the ground to ensure that the city doesn't let these folks

slip through the cracks. There's a lot more that I can

say about this, but I will -- I

will wrap up and just say I'm introducing a resolution of

support for senate bill 1010,

introduced by senator jackson of

santa barbara, california. Last year this board of supervisors passed legislation making san francisco the first

city in the country to prohibit

government use of phishing

technology on the basis of its inaccurate nature and its dispro portionate harm to women and

communities of color, and enabled by this mass

surveillance technology.

And and there was legislation to

prohibit the facial technology

in law enforcement body cameras

and now senator jackson sent

bill 1010 to expand the

prohibition on other biometric surveillance technology for five years in the state of california.

And in the context of massive

global expansions of surveillance infrastructure,

particularly in response to the covid-19 pandemic, there's never been a better time to get out in

front of the most threatening manifestations of that technology.

And I want to applaud senator jackson.

Finally, colleagues, after this

board meeting is adjourned, we

will have a briefing from our

chief health officer, Dr. Tomas, and I want to thank the President Of the board of supervisors as well as the doctor for accommodating that briefing.

It will be like our E.O.C. Briefings, but it will be

available to anybody who is

watching sf-gov tv and I also

hope that the briefings will

eventually be the subject of S.F.-gov tv as well so that we

can be as transparent as possible.

I do have more, but I will submit the rest and I'm delighted to say that nobody

that I know died this week.

Thank you, Madam Clerk, and Mr. President, and colleagues.

>> Clerk:   thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor safai, you asked to

be re-referred after supervisor

peskin.

>> Supervisor Stefani:   thank you, Madam Clerk. I think that supervisor peskin said that everything that I was

going to say.

But I will just say that our intent in this -- and just so it's clear for the record -- we did reach out, we did have conversations with all of the major companies. We did have a conversation, and we did ask them -- we said

during this crisis, during this circumstance, we are giving the opportunity to make this gesture and to do this on your own. They chose not to.

I think that we've had a couple weeks now and the sky is not falling and I think that this legislation is appropriate and I think that this conversation is

appropriate to move forward.

And I'm sure that as supervisor peskin intimated we're happy to sit down and to continue to have conversations and to look at how this is going to affect the industry.

I just think that for a lot of people out there they don't realize when you order through

one of these apps, the majority

of the cost for that order is

coming out of the very small

margin of profit that the restaurants have.

and so many of them have experienced significant,

significant loss that our world has been turned upside down.

These small businesses represent

the fabric of what in many ways make san francisco special. So supervisor peskin and mandelman and I, we have all

been in this conversation.

I want to thank the ggra, and

laurie thomas and ben blindman and the small business commission and as someone as an owner of multiple restaurants in

this city for giving us a lot of insight.

And thank shawn and andreas from

the dark horse, and the outer merchant, and these folks are on the ground every day and doing this. And so we believe that this is the right way. We believe this is the right path.

And so we're happy to continue these conversations and to move them forward and to think about what the economy is going to

look like post-covid-19. Thank you, Madam Clerk, and Mr. President and the rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   thank you, supervisor safai.

Supervisor preston.

>> Supervisor Preston:   submit.

>> Clerk:   thank you. Supervisor ronen.

>> Supervisor Ronen:   thank you. Today I have four items that I wanted to start off by giving

you all an update about -- I have been participating on behalf of the board of

supervisors in the give to S.F. Advisory committee.

And the staffer of that -- of

that fund is matthew goudeau who heads up our arts commission but is on temporary assignment through the E.O.C. On administering and doing the work of that fund.

Right now we have raised as a

city $10.5 million, about $5 million, a little bit more,

has actually been allocated to uses.

And $2.5 million to the human

services agency for food

security issues.

$2.1 million to eowd, which is funding the programs supporting

small businesses and $50,000

loan and the $10,000 grant to micro-businesses.

And $750,000 have gone to mohcd,

which is going to be assisting households that are having a

hard time getting assistance

with the direct gift cards that

are able to meet the myriad of

expenses that the businesses and families have.

And we have also initiated a new adcampaign,

ad campaign and $10.5 million in san francisco is a good start but it's not nearly in the ballpark of what we need to be. We have a billion dollar deficit over the next two years and we know that families all over our

city are struggling immensely right now.

We need to raise more money so

that san franciscoiams can be

there for san francisco. And we have billionaires in this city and to my knowledge we have not received any donations to

give to sf-funds.

And perhaps one, I'm not sure if

that person is a billionaire or

a multi-, multi-millionaire, but we can do a lot better. When you look at who has funded

give to S.F., it's very much a heartwarming exercise. Regular san franciscoians all over the city are giving

everywhere from a dollar to $1,000. That's where we're getting the bulk of this money.

San franciscoians can step up

who are able to give small contributions, we're really hoping to see the wealthier members of our community step up even more so.

What we're launching starting at

the end of this week is an ad campaign.

I want to give a huge thanks to

my legislative aide jennifer wi

who is doing all of the graphic design work for this campaign.

We have not been out there showing san franciscoians what we're doing with this fund and where the money is going. This is going to change that. For 21 days we're going to have

an ad that profiles both donors

to the give S.F. Fund as well as the recipients. What that assistance has meant for our small businesses, for our immigrant communities, for

our elders who are getting the majority of their food through this fund right now. And then we're asking them to step up and to contribute to this fund as well.

I will be reaching out to all of my colleagues asking you to participate in this campaign. I'm going to be reaching out to every elected official in the

city and county of san francisco. Even our state and federal delegations.

We all need to get this fund up

to the $100 million -- multi-$100 million range to get to the support that we need in our vulnerable communities.

So we will be sending a toolkit out to each of and you then a

daily ad that you can use your

social networks to get out there.

And we're hoping to turn this

fund into something really great

that we can be very proud of and that we can immediately get that

aid out to our communities.

This is one of those donation opportunities that's going

directly into the hands of those that need it.

None of the money is used for administration -- administrative needs. We're all doing this volunteer. None of the money is going for staff salaries want it's going -- every single dollar goes

directly into the hands of san franciscoians who need food and help paying their bills and small businesses that need to make payroll with no income

coming in, that we want to see open at the end of this because the federal programs that we

heard today from supervisor

stefani and fewer, you know, have been somewhat disastrous in their rollout. Having closed almost as soon as they opened. Our small businesses are continuing to struggle. And this is the fund where

they're going to get that quick, immediate assistance. So I'll be in touch with you all about that. But I wanted to give you an

update and also any input, feel free to pass my way and I can

pass it to the oversight body

who is overseeing this fund.

secondly, today I'm introducing

legislation to safeguard voter

access for san franciscoians for the November 2020 election and beyond.

What we just witnessed in wisconsin with the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme

court issuing a decision that force voters to leave the safety of their homes during this global pandemic to cast their

ballots was truly chilling.

President Trump himself has been

outspoken in his opposition to

expanding vote by mail, falsely

saying there's fraud and we must prepare now. California had passed the

voters' choice act to allow the counties to election into a model where every registered

voter gets a mailed ballot with options for those who wish to vote in person.

Originally launched with five counties participating in a

pilot run, data shows that voter choice act increased the turnout

by about three percentage point in the 2018 election and four points in the primary. Moreover, turnout increases were

greater for 18 year olds,

latino, and asian-american voters. It's now open to any county that takes steps to implement it and 10 counties have now opted in. But san francisco has not yet moved to do so. Currently in san francisco, vote by mail ballots are available only on request in advance of

election day with 70% of san francisco voters currently

registered as pertinent vote-by-mail.

Several states, colorado, hawaii and oregon and washington now conduct all elections by having ballots sent to every registered

voter without their having to request one. With voter suppression

nationwide and in particularly in communities of color, we can't afford to wait.

At this point we don't have time to implement before November, but we can't leave voters with the impossible choice of deciding between their health and casting a ballot. We can and we must protect the

right of san franciscoians to vote. My legislation directs the san francisco director of elections to protect san francisco voting

access in the November 2020 election by mailing a ballot to

every registered voter, to bring a report to the board of supervisors on how the November election will be implemented and

whether we're still in shelter-in-place or not, including outreach to communities with historically low turnout.

And to provide an analysis of implementing D.C.A. In the future. We needed an emergency plan for November and a timeline to prepare for future elections.

And we need transparency along

the way for the public to watchdog the decisions that are made. I want to thank san francisco

democratic party chair david compos for raising this issue

and sending a letter to director arntz and us and urging us to do this.

And for supervisors haney,

walton and preston for their co-sponsorship. the November election May be the most important of our lifetimes, the duration of the covid-19

crisis and when and how shelter-in-place is going to be lifted is unknown it.

Will provide a secure November 3, 2020 election and a clear cast

path for the future and

thanks to my office for having

worked so hard on this. Next I'm introducing a

resolution to urge governor

newsome to issue a full pardon

to leah beru, an ethiopian

immigrant and domestic violence survivor.

We ask the detention facility at

the county jail and to stop

deportation after defending herself after years of spousal abuse. Ly had already served time for the crime that she was convicted of when she injured her husband

while defending herself from his violence. Leah was never informed of the potential immigration consequences of accepting a plea deal. Considering the current covid-19 pandemic and the life-threatening danger of being

in a setting, and it's essential

that we help her to return to safety and shelter in place with her family here in san francisco.

Show met her husband in ethiopia

and she moved here as a

permanent resident to live with him.

Life became a nightmare. Her husband, a white man,

referred to her as a slave and used racial slurs towards her.

He began to control her movements and with whom she could speak. And the verbal abuse turned

physical as he began punching and beating her. He would apologize and promise to change but would soon become violent again. Leah threatened to call the

police on several oceans and he

told her that police would believe him, a citizen, and not her.

And she. Told her husband that she wanted to leave and go to a shelter but he refused to let her leave.

She felt trapped.

While in prison, she did classes

and graduated from college and bake are became a mentor for others. In 2018, she was turned over to

I.C.E. And placed in deportation proceedings. The sole avenue to remain in the united states is through a pardon. I urge your support to right

this wrong and to ensure that

leah has the opportunity to live and to be free.

And I want to thank my office

for helping to prepare this resolution. And, finally, today I'm introducing another resolution urging our U.S. Congressional representatives to ensure the inclusion of immigrant communities during the next federal relief package developed in response to covid-19 public

health crisis. During this unprecedented moment in history, immigrants have continued to show a commitment to this country by placing their own health at risk on behalf of the greater population while working as health care providers and maintenance workers and farm workers and grocery store

workers and countless other service industry jobs on. March 27th, the President Signed a relief bill that excluded the U.S. Immigrant population and as a result of

this exclusion, millions of individuals, families and children are suffering the worst impacts of this public health and economic crisis. Immigrant communities like all other americans who have been impacted by this crisis have a need for economic relief, food assistance and housing security. And as we have learned from the public health guidance, the inclusion of the immigrant communities in covid-19 response and recovery efforts is essential to flattening the curve and restoring the health of our country and our economy as quickly as possible. This resolution urges our congressional representatives to fight for the inclusion of our nation's immigrant communities

in the next round of federal

covid-19 relief package negotiations and calls on the federal administration to halt the immigrant detention and deportations and instead to use those resources to ensure access to public health services for immigrant communities.

And I would like to thank the staff for partnering with us on this resolution. And for their tireless advocacy

on behalf of san francisco and californians and the immigrant communities.

I would also like to thank my staff, paul, for his work on this resolution.

And I'll just end by saying that each -- one of these efforts that I'm introducing today was

worked on by one of my four

incredible staff members. I just want to tell them thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart. They're working seven days a week from early morning to late

at night on every aspect of this crisis. They're in the district walking

streets on a daily basis. They're going from homelessness

to small businesses to S.R.O.

Hotel rooms, there's nothing -- and there is nothing that they haven't stepped up to the plate to do.

And I just wanted to show my immense gratitude to all four of them. They're heros in my eyes and I appreciate that.

The rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   thank you,

supervisor ronen. Seeing no other names on the

roster, Mr. President, I believe that concludes the introduction

of new business.

>> President Yee:   okay, let's go on to public comments.

>> Clerk:   okay, thank you, Mr. President.

We have been conducting these meetings via video conference for the last five weeks.

And so we have learned that it's probably a really good idea that during both communications and

during public comment that we

provide the same information. So I'm going to provide the five

ways that the public are encouraged to participate remotely in this meeting. And first of all, of course, you can share your correspondence

with the board by submitting via

email, board board@supervisors.Sfgov.Org. If you do not have the internet

submit by U.S. Postal service to address the envelope to san

francisco board of supervisors, room 244, city hall, san

francisco, california, 94102.

Please Stand By:   .

>> Clerk:   when prompted, press pound, and then pound again, to join the meeting. Once you've joined, you'll hear

the meeting in progress. Dial 1 and then 0 to be added

to the speaker line, and I will

ask our operations

sergeant-at-arms, Mr. Qu, are

there any speakers in the

public comment speaker queue.

>> Operator:   Madam Clerk, there are apparently four speakers waiting to speak.

>> Clerk:   okay.

>> Operator:   I will start the queue.

>> I wish to speak against

concurring resolution 200384, which is being heard today without referral.

This is a concurrence of the mandatory facial mask order issued April 16. There seems to be a lot of

trust, but no verify. The fact that it is being heard

before your little chat

itchat

with tomas aragon is very inappropriate.

For asthmatics and those are

copd, this poses heavy breathing risk. Long use can also cause individuals to touch their

faces frequently, and as with

homemade masks, some materials

are conducive for growing germs.

In a city with a living history

of the aids epidemic, that's

what this mask's psychological

war fare is.

How do you explain the c-130 transport plane over city hall last week?

The only reason to make such a

flight is a sci-op.

It is only a period of time

before someone shoots san

francisco women of color for showing their face. What's going on is not even a heavy flu season.

Supervisor fewer said today,

not one overflow I.C.U. Bed has been put in service.

>> Clerk:   thank you, sir, for your comments.

>> you have three questions remaining.

>> my name is francisco

decosta, and while the previous

speaker spoke, while you May

not agree with what he said, a

lot of what he says is empirical data. I've been watching you all over

the place, and come four or five months, we're going to get

another wave, and if you

haven't learned from this wave

of this pandemic, we will fall flat on our face when the

second wave comes, so there's a

lot of myths and disinformation and bluffing all the time. You cannot bluff all the people all the time.

A lot of you talk too much.

This blessed roll call that you

have, you should be limited to five minutes, just like our

public comment is limited to two minutes.

Most of you all can speak to the point.

here in san bruno, none of the small businesses have been contacted. None of the small businesses have received any help.

All of the large businesses

when the last spiraling of the economy took place contributed to the city. Shame on you supervisors. There are one or two supervisors that really care for the homeless.

The rest of you all are just hog wash. Thank you very much.

>> Clerk:   thank you for your comments. >> you have two questions

remaining.

>> linda chapman speaking for nob hill neighbors. My heart overflows with thanks for those of you who are really trying to get people off the

streets and into housing as opposed to congregate care.

You will have received thanks

from C.A.R.A., when our letter went out.

I've been in touch with F.D.A.

And C.A.R.A., who are interested in housing older people and disabled people, and I was to have been in touch

with the S.R.O. Collaborative,

but the phone system didn't accommodate me, so I hope to have the opportunity to talk

with your office about it. Nob hill neighbors is going to

be resurrected by people who are leaders of three different organizations in the past. I was one of the community organizers for nob hill

neighbors during the -- well, they were active for 25 years

in preserving rental housing

and preserving the neighborhood

for housing until the

neighborhood started to disband it.

Another lady organized it for a while, and then, she helped

organize lower polk neighbors

who unfortunately discovered the secret bank accounts that

the other officers had and the

corruption that they had.

>> Clerk:   thank you. Thank you, Miss Chapman.

>> you have two questions remaining.

>> yes, hi, this is peter war

field from library users association.

Thanks, first of all, to the clerk, for giving explanations

of how to get in touch with the public, including for those who

do not have access to the internet.

Our public libraries have a long-standing important civic

and cultural role in providing trusted information, education,

and recreation, and for free.

Unfortunately, on February --

on March 13, rather, the

library closed rather suddenly,

and provided basically only

service via internet on a limited basis.

They now have added a tip reference line that's only

available from 10:00 to 5:00 monday through friday, but it's still worthwhile and valuable. Because there's so many people

that do not have internet

access, my information is about

14% from the census bureau.

In san francisco, that's 123,000-plus people. There's a lot that the library could do that would provide

service for both those without

access and also those with.

There could be telephone story time, there could be expanded telephone reference, there could be taking of reserves, none of which would involve contact with the public or co-workers. Books and other materials could

be mailed as well as returned

by book drops and mail, which would not necessarily involve any direct public comment.

Some libraries, not in san

francisco, though, are

providing curb side service, and that would provide another

service to the public.

All libraries provide a

tremendous service, and we would like you to expand what service it's providing now, and especially for those without

internet access.

Thanks very much.

>> you have one question remaining. >> hello, just a moment, and

let me start my timer. Hi.

Michael petrellis calling in. First of all, I wanted to point

out that the police commission

has not met since late February. The police commission has

cancelled a total of ten

meetings since February, and

the mayor recently announced two nominees to the police commission.

You'll soon be considering

those nominees, and it is very

troubling that we do not know

when the next police commission will take place.

Please look into this.

My second matter is I want to

thank all san franciscans who

are observing physical

distancing rules and who are repairing

helping to flatten the curve of covid-19 infections.

And my third item for today is

one that I keep bringing up,

which is that you, supervisors,

are disrespecting we, the

people, by making us wait for

your roll call introductions to

take place before the public.

I'm asking you again to please put public comment at the start of the meeting.

Put we, the people, before

your egos.

You use roll call to go on and

on and onto thank each other or thank your staff. That's fine.

I would like for you to set

time limits, as Mr. Decosta pointed out. You guys should follow some

time rules for yourselves during this pandemic.

It is not okay that public

comment after your egos are

allowed to ramble on as long as you like during roll call introductions. Thank you.

>> you have zero questions remaining.

>> Clerk:   Mr. President, I

believe that concludes the current queue of public speakers.

>> President Yee:   okay. Thank you.

Seeing no other public speakers, public comment is now closed.

Madam Clerk, let's call for

adoption without committee reference.

>> Clerk:   these measures were introduced for adoption without

committee reference.

A unanimous vote is required for adoption of these resolutions today. any supervisor May require any resolution to go to committee.

>> President Yee:   okay. Colleagues, would any

supervisor like to sever any items? Okay. Supervisor peskin?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   I'd like

to sever items 21 and 26, please.

>> President Yee:   and I'd like

to sever, Madam Clerk, item number 24.

>> Clerk:   okay.

So that leaves item 20, 22, 23, and 25.

>> President Yee:   okay. Let's take roll.

>> Clerk:   on items 20, 22, 23, and 25 -- [Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay, then. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted and

motion is approved unanimously.

Now, Madam Clerk, let's go back up to item 21. Can you please call that.

>> Clerk:   item 21, resolution

to urge the disclosure of

additional data sets related to

the well-being of homeless san franciscans and residents of single room occupancy hotels, the number and occupancy of

available hotel rooms, the geographic origin of confirmed positive covid-19 cases, and

the date of covid-19 test specimen collection, and commending the interdepartmental collaboration which resulted in the publication of the san

francisco covid-19 data tracker.

>> President Yee:   okay. Supervisor peskin?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you, President Yee. Colleagues, I believe you are

all in receipt of amendments to this resolution which reflects updates made that we are all

aware of to the data tracker

for the public that has been

made over the past week as well

as conversations that my office

have had with some of your

offices, conference calls, and conversations with

administrative staff.

I would like to bring forth

these amendments and then

continue this item for a week, not because they're substantive

but it will create additional

conversations between the

aforementioned offices.

I also want to mention that it

requires a tremendous amount of

work from the city administrator's office and want to thank everybody who turned

this data tracker site into something that is important to all of us and the public.

I understand that some of the

data is only recently being

collected digitally, so we have

literally thousands of paper

documents that are being sifted through and scraped for

relative data points that the tracker will continue to include new data sets. I also believe that this sort

of transparency and analysis is

going to be remarkably important as we anticipate outbreaks over the next weeks and months and potentially

longer than that as well as

when we finally relax into some semblance of normal.

That said, the amendments begin

towards the bottom of page 2. They are highlighted in yellow.

the first new whereas clause

reflects that the data tracker

shows the number of covid-19 cases by zip code, which many of you have seized upon to

highlight the geographic,

income, racial, and other health disparities that are

being revealed right now and

were set forth in this

morning's chronicle.

I also note that we are not

receiving geographic

disparities nationally in covid-19 deaths yet.

Next, while I know that other

date is not being made public

yet, and then, I've updated the

resolve clause on pages 3 and 4

to reflect the ongoing data set that's -- sets that we hope to have made public in the future.

With that, I'd like to move the amendments and then continue this for one week.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Is there a second for the amendments? >> Supervisor Ronen: >> Supervisor

>> Supervisor Ronen:   ronen, second.

>> President Yee:   okay.

>> Supervisor Walton:   point of clarity.

>> President Yee:   okay. Who's speaking?

>> Supervisor Walton:   this is supervisor walton.

>> President Yee:   okay. Supervisor walton?

>> Supervisor Walton:   point of clarity, we are just voting on the amendments and not necessarily the continuance to next week?

>> President Yee:   yes, just the amendments.

>> Supervisor Walton:   okay.

>> President Yee:   okay. Motion made by supervisor

peskin, and seconded by supervisor ronen on the amendments --

[Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Then the amendments pass unanimously.

Supervisor walton, did you have something to say about the continuance?

>> Supervisor Walton:   I did, actually, President Yee.

I would like to offer two friendly amendments, if I May.

On page 1, I would like to offer a friendly amendment after where it states, the geographic origin of confirmed

positive covid-19 cases, on

page 1 -- it's either lines 5

and 6 or 4 and 5 -- my lines is

crazy, but after that, I would

like to add, the confirmed

number of covid-19 deaths.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   and Mr. President, that is acceptable to the author.

>> President Yee:   okay.

>> Supervisor Walton:   one more from me.

>> President Yee:   go ahead, supervisor walton.

>> Supervisor Walton:   thank you, President Yee.

And one more, if I May, supervisor peskin. Where it states the total number of deaths from covid-19

on page 1, line 21, I would

like to add, and zip code of

each death from covid-19.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   and that

is acceptable to the author.

>> President Yee:   would you

like to second the amendment?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   second.

>> President Yee:   all right. roll call on the additional

amendments -- wait, wait. Supervisor fewer?

>> Supervisor Fewer:   oh, yes. Thank you, President Yee. I just have a clarification on that amendment, supervisor walton.

Did you mean the zip code of

the -- where the person lived

and not where actually they passed away at? Is that --

>> Supervisor Walton:   correct, correct.

The zip code where they reside. The same information we release

in homicides and other cases of death in san francisco.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   so I would

advise in the amendment, the

residence of where the victim resided.

>> Supervisor Walton:   I accept that, supervisor fewer.

>> President Yee:   and I'll just

ask if that's okay with you,

supervisor peskin.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   yes, sir,

Mr. President.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Somebody's typing and not muted. Madam Clerk, could you go ahead

and take the roll on the proposed amendment?

[Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay. So the additional amendments

are passed unanimously.

So Madam Clerk, let's call the roll to continue -- did you make that motion already, supervisor peskin?

I think you did, right?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   I did, yes, sir.

>> President Yee:   and is there

a second?

>> Supervisor Mandelman:

Mandelman:   mandelman second.

>> President Yee:   okay. So there is a motion and a second to continue the item, so Madam Clerk, can you call the

roll on continuing the item as amended?

>> Clerk:   thank you.

[Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   thank you. So the motion to continue this

item as amended until April 28 passes unanimously.

Madam Clerk, can you call item

24.

>> Clerk:   item 24 -- item 24, resolution to urge the united

states congress and the federal

executive branch to

expeditiously pass and enact

subsequent interim emergency coronavirus relief stimulus

packages in addition to the

coronavirus aid, relief, and

economic security act,

C.A.R.E.S., with at least $500 billion more in economic aid

and $250 billion more in investments for small business loans, specifically targeting

women, people of color,

veteran-owned businesses and

nonprofits, bolstering community-based lenders and smaller financial institutions,

and supporting the san francisco small business

commission's recommendations.

>> President Yee:   as almost every single one of you have mentioned and acknowledged in

the last few weeks, this

resolution urges congress to

act swiftly and equitably to

ensure that our neighborhood

businesses, women owned, people of color owned, and rural businesses receive a fair opportunity to receive the aid they need. As pointed out again today,

we're recognizing that many --

the business relief that's been

already available has gone

pretty much lopsidedly to the big corporations.

So when the paycheck protection

act rolled out a few weeks ago,

so many of the businesses were simply shut out or jumped through hoops only to be left

hanging with no response.

The funds were depleted completely a few days ago.

It still remains unclear how

many received loans, and I'm

unsure of how many businesses

in san francisco have no aid in hand.

We are also unsure how many

corporations are getting aid

above hard working small businesses.

Just hours ago, a bipartisan

deal was struck, $321 billion

to fund the paycheck protection

program, which was intended to provide forgivable loans for

small businesses, with $60 billion set aside for small

lenders and community institutions. $75 billion will also be to support hospitals and health

care institutions, and $25 billion dedicated for expanding

testing and contact tracing.

The house is expected to vote on thursday.

I also want to emphasize that

this is the interim emergency bill going through congress,

and that a larger stimulus

package called C.A.R.E.S. Two

will also be in the works soon. There will be a focus on smaller credit union units and

the community financing institution, which are critical

for expanding relief to our

small businesses who don't have the same opportunities to funding as the large institutions.

I want to commend speaker nancy

pelosi, senator schumer, and

the congressional democrats who

have advocated strongly,

pushing for not anything less.

I want to also thank the san francisco small business

administration to help pass

regulations to enforce stronger protections.

I also want to thank the office of economic and workforce development for their ongoing work.

As a city, we need to continue monitoring the execution of

these programs closely and identifying accounts quickly. We urge small businesses to

reach out and share your stories and experiences with us. I still believe it is important

for us to vote on this

resolution today to place it , to place it in the official record, and to commit ourselves to helping small businesses.

I want to thank supervisors

mandelman, preston, and safai

for their cosponsoring of this resolution. Okay. So Madam Clerk, can you call the roll on this?

>> Clerk:   on item 24 -- [Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay. Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously.

Madam Clerk, let's go to item 26.

>> Clerk:   item 26, motion to concur and actions taken by the

mayor in the 9th and 10th

supplement to the proclamation

on April 10, 2020 and April 14, 2020, to meet the ongoing local emergency related to the novel

coronavirus covid-19 pandemic.

>> President Yee:   thank you. Supervisor peskin?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you, colleagues.

First, I wanted to start with a

house keeping issue.

It is my belief that in at

least one, if not two, of the

mayor's declarations, it was accompanied by legal advice. We all received --

>> President Yee:   supervisor peskin? I don't know if your video is on or not.

I don't see you anywhere.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   hold on one second. Wait one second.

Yeah, my video is on.

>> President Yee:   okay. My bad.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   okay.

So as I was saying, my

understanding is that in at least one, if not two

instances, the mayor has

received privileged legal

advice as to these supplemental declarations.

Yesterday, the board of supervisors received, for the

first time, an attorney-client

privileged memorandum with

regard to one of those

supplemental declarations, so the housekeeping item is, I

just want to be clear, as with

attorney-client privilege advice, that the board gets, as

we craft legislation, that is ultimately shared with the

chief executive, that during this emergency period, the

converse happens, and I think we are still waiting on one other attorney-client privileged memorandum that has

yet to be given to us on an earlier supplemental.

But I just want to confirm through the President With our deputy city attorney, Miss Pearson, that that is now going

to be the policy of the city

attorney's office.

>> Mr. Givner:   this is deputy

city attorney jon givner.

Can you hear me?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   yes.

>> Mr. Givner:   my colleague had

to unexpectedly leave the

meeting, so I'm jumping in, but only on audio, not video. That is currently our office's policy to provide confidential

written advice to the board whenever we provide confidential written advice to

the mayor regarding one of her proclamations.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   okay.

So I think there May be one outstanding piece of advice

that we did not receive, and we should probably receive those

timely, but I will speak to

you, Mr. Givner, offline about that.

With regard to the 10th supplemental, this is a

question through the President To the representative of the

mayor, and I'm trying to

understand what precipitated

this order, and I have a number

of questions, and I'll start with the fifth supplemental declaration. My understanding is that is expiring and that is about to

be renewed, so through the

President To Miss Kitler, is

the fifth declaration with regard to he vacations

evictions going to be

renewed today or tomorrow?

>> through the President To the

member, we expect to extend the

eviction moratorium tomorrow.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you.

And with regard to the 10th,

which is premised -- it says

that it shall be unlawful for a

tourist hole will to remove any tourist any

-- tourist hotel to remove any

tourist staying in a unit, what

was this trying to address? >> through the chair, our office was made aware of a number of individuals who had

been sheltering in place at a

private hotel, a tourist hotel not in kind of the number of hotels that the city has been

bringing on-line but kind of a private hotel that they had

booked a -- at a private hotel,

not a number of hotels that the

city has been bringing on-line, but kind of a private hotel

that they had -- not in kind of the number of hotels that the

city has been bringing on-line, but kind of a private hotel

that they had booked a room

through their own means and had

test -- a --

[No audio] >> Clerk:

[Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   there are 11 ayes.

>> President Yee:   okay.

So this motion is approved unanimously.

So Madam Clerk, please read the

in memoriams.

>> Clerk:   this meeting will be adjourned in memory of the

following beloved individuals.

On behalf of supervisor safai,

in memory of the late luis

echegorrian, and on behalf of

supervisor stefani, kathy yoshigochi.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Madam Clerk, do we have any

further business?

>>

>> Clerk:   there is no further business today.

>> President Yee:   okay. Members of the public, you are

also welcome to continue

watching.

This meeting is occurring under

the governor's policy,

discussing any business that is

within the subject matter jurisdiction of the body. This will allow the board to be

fully briefed by the health officer and ask questions of

him as long as we do not discuss among ourselves or take

any -- any of these -- action

on any of these.

Members of the board, please

stay on the line, and if we can

give ourselves about 30

seconds, we can ask our health

officer, Dr. Tomas aragon, to

be on the line.

>> Clerk:   Mr. President, Dr. Aragon is on the line currently

when you're ready.

>> can you hear me?

>> President Yee:   yes.

So Dr. Aragon, are you ready?

>> yes, I'm -- I'm ready.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Thanks for joining us today to provide the board a briefing on the latest updated on the health emergency.

Before we get started, Madam Clerk, can you please take the roll and call the attendance of

any staff so we understand who

is present for this update?

>> Clerk:   yes, Mr. President.

[Roll Call]

>> Clerk:   Mr. President, everyone is present.

>> Supervisor Ronen:   okay. I've got a question before we begin.

>> President Yee:   let me finish this part first.

So let's continue to use the roster so we are able to speak one at a time. Please indicate if you would like to speak, and I will call on you. If there is no current speakers, I will turn it over

to Dr. Aragon to share his briefing with us. Supervisor ronen?

>> Supervisor Ronen:   yeah.

I just find this all very odd. I didn't know about this part

of our -- this addendum to our

meeting that wasn't noticed to the public.

Can -- can you explain -- so -- so we can just call a meeting

with all 11 supervisors without

informing the members of the board of supervisors and without informing the public

ahead of time on a major

policy issue as long as we don't have cross discussions?

It just seems very odd to me.

I don't know how this happened

and why we weren't informed.

>> President Yee:   sure, and

I'll take a shot at that. Basically, this is for

information only and to clarify

the information, and, I guess,

this is, you know, one where we won't do it every week, but it's good to know.

No, we're going to do some of

these updates informally through our monday through

friday briefings, and to give the public some good information.

As I mentioned earlier, the governor's sort of executive

order that allows public bodies to receive information, and it

allows us to do it without setting an agenda.

So deputy city attorney givner,

are you still there?

>> Mr. Givner:   I am.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Is that sort of along the right line?

>> Mr. Givner:   that's right. Your description was accurate.

The governor issued an

executive order on March 21 that allowed legislative bodies

like the board to receive briefings from state and local officials regarding the

government's response to covid-19 and allowed the board

members to ask questions during

those briefings as long as the board members don't discuss

among themselves or take any action.

The governor's order doesn't

require the board to receive

these briefings in a televised setting, but I understand

you've chosen to do that today. And as I said, there's no requirement for agenda notice

for this type of briefing.

>> President Yee:   supervisor ronen.

>> Supervisor Ronen:   as a matter of courtesy, if one of

these meetings are going to be planned, if we could be advised

ahead of time so we could plan

our schedules. We attend the monday, wednesday, friday briefings, and this would have been nice to have known before it was introduced at introduction.

>> President Yee:   so supervisor

ronen, I agree with you, and this was requested of me pretty

close to starting time at 2:00,

so supervisor peskin, would you

like to weigh-in because this is your request.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you, Mr. President, and thank

you for your accommodation.

To supervisor ronen, through

the President, and through to

my colleagues, I actually

wanted to put this on the

agenda as an imperative item, but I was advised that could

not happen.

I do want this to happen in a

regular form, in a way that the

public has access to this, in this very rapidly evolving situation. I hope that we can actually

have a regular item on the

agenda where we can hear from somebody who is actually our appointee of the board of supervisors, the public health officer, and the public can hear it, as well. This is our first time out,

and -- but I appreciate

everybody's indulgence and just wanted not only for the 11 of

us to hear, but the public to

be able to hear.

This is an imperfect start, but

it is a start, and you and I and my colleagues have been

banging the drums for more transactions, and that was the

spirit which I brought this to today's meeting. Thank you, President Yee, for accommodating my request, and

thank you, city attorney's

office for making this, as

well, and I hope that this information can be available to

the public, as well.

>> President Yee:   okay. So Dr. Aragon, would you like to get started? >> yes. Thank you, everyone, for giving

me time this afternoon to go

ahead and give you an update.

What I want to do is give you a

little bit of context from a regional perspective. So san francisco, we have been very fortunate in that we were

able to dodge a bullet in terms of the sheltering in place,

social distancing, all of the

interventions that were

implemented prevented a large hospital surge, and we are not

seeing in the bay area what is happening in new york city and what happened in italy, so

that's one good thing I want to reassure people.

What -- but one of the challenges is that even though

we dodged a bullet, we're still

very vulnerable, and we can

easily tip into a new york scenario, and I'll try to explain why that is.

So we know from data that's

coming out of santa clara and

los angeles counties that there are some serology studies to

get an idea of how many people in the population has been infected.

We know that santa clara, even though it wasn't a perfect study, about 2% of the

population was infected. If you look at the number of

surveillances they have in

their system, it's a large underestimate of cases or people that were infected.

So whatever cases we're aware of was actually a large

undercount of the number of infections. That's the first thing. The second thing to realize is

a large population is still vulnerable.

Uninfected and still susceptible.

In santa clara, it's close to 98%, and san francisco is

probably going to be closer to santa clara.

The way this virus works, it's

so contagious, it's being

verified by the modelers, the hospital regions across california and also the bay area, that we could -- we

could -- we could, if reinfection were to occur, we could tip into a new york scenario. That's the first thing I want to say. The next thing I want to say is if you look at when we started our shelter in place and where

we are today, we're -- even

though we were able to slow

down the growth, the iceberg of

infection, that we're now

seeing movements of those infections into our most vulnerable infections.

The S.R.O.S, the homeless, long-term care facilities.

The people who are not only the

most vulnerable, but who have the most difficult time doing

shelter in place and all the interventions that we would want. Some of our advanced staff are

doing calculations, and because

that population is big, if it

moves really fast through that population, we can still end up with a surge in san francisco,

so that's one of our

vulnerabilities. The next thing I want to summarize is how the thinking is nationally on how we're going to move forward.

The good news is that san

francisco really is in a better place than pretty much anyplace

in the country because we've been able to prevent the surge, so that's great. So the question is, how do we

move to the next phase. We are in what is called nationally phase one, which is

slowing the spread and preparing our infrastructure

for the next phase. Phase two is about how do we

begin to roll back these dramatic interventions like

shelter in place that has a humungous economic impact and is also going to have an impact on the community, especially

those that are most vulnerable,

as you know, the low-income people of color, undocumented. And so how do we begin to roll -- how do we begin to open

up the economy in a way that

doesn't create a surge that

happened in new york city. That's phase two. Phase three is we're not even close to phase three.

Phase three is where we have

good therapeutics, and we have

a good vaccine, and we can treat the population. So I want to come back to phase one, and where we are now, and what we're trying to do in the city. The way to think -- I'll give

you a way of remembering the

key pillars of phase one, and

they all begin with the letter t. Transmission, testing, tracing, and treatment. Under the category of transmission is where we know

most of our activities have been.

Sheltering in place, social distancing, universal face

coverings, hand washing, all of

these interventions --

environmental disinfection are

critical to interrupting transmission. We want to keep those in place

until we can pull back on shelter in place.

The second is testing.

Fortunately, testing is improving. Back east are using saliva test. I understand there's a home test that May be approved or just got approved recently, so

the testing capacity is going

to increase dramatically, and that's going to help a lot in

terms of our case finding strategy. As our testing capacity increases, we're going to see

more and more testing. With case finding, we have case

management and contact tracing.

That's the third phase, the tracing component.

We have to build a public

workforce that can do all this

public health management and tracing. We have a component with ucsf,

and we've implemented an

complication that allows us to hire people who can work from home and do contact tracing

on -- to call up and do contact

tracing on-line, the whole work flow of contact tracing.

That works fine for an average

person that you can contact and get that information and work with that. The other component is the

people on the ground. We need to build up strike steam

teams, not just for our

population, our homeless, our S.R.O.S. Currently, we have core

expertise and core capacity.

We now need to replicate that --

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>> again, we can begin to roll

back shelter in place. And then, the last of phase one is treatment capacity to make sure that we have both the

surge for hospital beds, I.C.U.

Beds, and ventilators. We were fortunate in san francisco that we didn't have to use our surge capacity, but

we need to have it if we see a surge in infections. So that's where we're at in phase one. I do want to mention that the

bay area, we're part -- because

we're part of california, ultimately, the legal authority of how this plays out in california comes from the state, so we're really waiting

for more state guidance on how

they're going to anchor their intervention because to the

extent that we can align closer to what the state is doing, and that everybody feels comfortable that that is a responsible way to move forward, then that's going to

make it a little easier for us to sort of being focusing on those public health components and not getting into these other components where people are asking me, you should open

this up, you should open that

up, and it's really hard to know, in my current role, to be focusing on that. We're trying to move to how do

we focus on the core public health interventions and align to what the state is doing?

So that's where we're at right now.

Again, and I think -- like I said, we dodged a bullet, but

we're not -- we've damaged one bullet, and we want to make sure, as we move forward, that we have everything in place so that we can begin to open up in

a way that makes sense for everybody.

So let me -- let me stop there, and I'm happy to answer questions -- you May have

questions about other components, and I'll try to

answer those other questions to

the best I can.

For example, the map of cases

across san francisco, I can answer questions to things that have already been released publicly.

>> President Yee:   supervisor peskin?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you, Mr. President, and thank

you, Dr. Aragon for making yourself available this afternoon.

I think what you said was

helpful for all of us to hear.

You did speak to the vulnerable

populations and vulnerable

sites that we are all painfully aware of, whether they're

nursing homes, shelters, or single-room occupancy hotels --

and jails, for that matter. Can you show us what our plan

is for each of those types of sites?

>> so in that -- and that's an area where we absolutely need

to build -- we need to build capacity. So let me start off in the long-term care facility. We're learning how to manage different situations.

So the long-term care facility,

I would say that's where our

biggest chance is for mortality.

Laguna honda was our first focus because we have 800 residents at laguna honda.

We have a workforce of 1500,

and it was just a big vulnerability. We had a few cases at laguna honda. We brought in the C.D.C. And the state health department,

and they really helped us how to figure out -- how to

manage -- how to manage a

long-term care facility as big

and as complex as laguna honda,

so we learned a big part how to do that.

How to confine big parts of the

hospital and to do mass testing of the hospital staff and residents. We learned a lot from that, and

what we need to do is replicate that across a lot of long-term care facilities throughout san francisco. Other long-term care facilities

don't have the training, experience, and capacity that

laguna honda has, and so our

long-term care facilities need

a tremendous amount of support

not only in P.P.E., in helping

them develop a task of testing,

components, screening, that component.

We need to build out -- I'm just going to call it a strike

team -- teams that can be

deployed to help the long-term care if a similarities. And we're learning at our

hotels and our S.R.O.S.

It's the same situation, especially as testing becomes more available, how we're going

to do surveillance in S.R.O.S, how we're going to do targeted

testing should any cases

appear, and how we're going to do targeted availability.

So when have a room, and a person goes ahead, how we're

going to be able to place that

person into both isolation and quarantine.

The shelters -- we're in the

same situation in that we're

better learning how to manage that, as well. You'll be hearing -- some of this has been in the news, but

you'll be hearing more about

how we're learning how to

shelter in place homeless

people who are covid positive, who are recovering or recovered, where they can be all in one location where we

have the staff, the personal

protective equipment, the training, we have everything in

place so that can happen safely. And we have -- we still have

more -- we have more capacity that we have to build up so that we can do that better,

more efficiently, and so that

we can do that quickly.

>> President Yee:   Dr. Aragon, particularly in regards to this

strike team that you're talking about that would be available

if something happens, if this

strike team is there, why

wouldn't we send them to these

nursing homes now and maybe

have some prevention instead of waiting until something happens? >> yeah. What I'm calling a strike team is more than responding to an

outbreak, it's focused on inspection. We want them to be inspecting

the long-term care facilities

before and when and if an outbreak occurs.

So we're calling them an

outbreak prevention and response team.

So we sort of realize the way communicable disease control capacity started is it started

with a team of people who were

trained to focus on a specific

communicable diseases in the community, and now, we realize

is that not only do we take that team, and now, they have

to be specialized in long-term

care facilities, S.R.O.S, homeless, and now jails.

Each one of those requires a

different strategy, so now, we

have to replicate -- we have to build out more teams, and so within that, we have to build more capacity. So right now, we don't have that capacity, so we're looking

to -- we're looking to hire more staff.

Right now, we're working with

san francisco state, U.S.F., U.C. Berkeley.

We're trying to bring in staff,

working with C.B.O.S so that we

can hire staff to do all of

this work that can extend the expertise that we have at the

health department.

>> President Yee:   thank you. Supervisor haney?

>> Supervisor Haney:   thank you. Thank you, President Yee.

Dr. Aragon, I wonder if you

could speak to testing capacity. We spoke if we have enough tests in san francisco.

It seems like we have a lot of priority populations that we should be testing that we

aren't testing. There's been some announcements

from ucsf that they're able to help with testing for a period of time. How much testing are we doing citywide, and what are the

limitations for us to do more? >> yeah. I don't have the statistics on me right now. If you go to the website, it tells us the testing capacity

that we're doing, and the testing capacity is finally beginning to open up and finally beginning to increase.

The one thing that held up testing was the supply chain of things like swabs. Initially, it was reagents.

All of that is beginning to

improve, and P.P.E., personal protective equipment.

It was not really the labs, but

all of that is improving, so we're beginning to gear up so

that we can do more -- we can take the public health capacity

and focus on the most vulnerable populations. And then, the public sector, we're going to hope that

they're going to take care of

more of the general population so that collectively, we should be able to do more testing.

So you're -- you're going to see -- you'll see dramatic improvements in the testing. It's taken a while to get to

this capacity, and also, in the technology of testing. so there are the development of rapid tests that can now,

within an hour, tell you whether you're positive -- positive or not. As I mentioned before, there's

a saliva test, and there's a home test that will be available soon if it hasn't

already been approved.

>> Supervisor Haney:   when there

was the cases at M.S.C. South, they tested that entire

shelter, and it seemed like there was good reason to assume

that there May be other shelters that have, you know,

large outbreaks, as well. >> right. Right.

>> Supervisor Haney:   but the policy of the navigation

centers and the S.R.O.S and

people on the street is the

symptomatic get tested, but if

you're none symptomatic, you

don't -- nonsymptomatic, you

don't get tested, even if

you're in this highly dangerous environment. What is your stance on that?

>> so I would say we're moving

towards developing a deal

testing people who are asymptomatic.

I think there's going to be a

number of people that are

asymptomatic, probably like

25%. That's resulted in a real change and shift. We're trying to figure out what would be the appropriate interval, and what is the appropriate setting for it to be most effective, and that's

one of the reasons why we went to universal face coverings is

because we know that there are people who are asymptomatic, and so that's an important part of that strategy.

And so we're -- we're learning how to do this together with the state. The state just recently, two days ago, published guidelines

for testing, and we can make

sure that you'll have those

guidelines for testing.

It includes both symptomatic

and asymptomatic testing.

>> Supervisor Haney:   yeah,

because it seems there could be

a need for asymptomatic testing

in places where it seems like it would spread quickly. Just last thing, when you were

in front of us, I think about five weeks ago, just a month

ago, we asked a number of questions about homeless

individuals in different environments, and five weeks later, for the most part, as

far as I can tell, not much at

all has changed for people who

are currently on the streets. They are still largely out there in environments where they're not receiving services

or not in a safe place, and I

know there's a lot that's been

said about people who are in shelters and navigation centers, and the very slow pace in moving them into hotels. But for people on the streets,

what is your view of what we should be doing right now to prevent the spread in light of

the fact that it's been over a

month, and as far as I can tell, in my district at least, not much has changed at all in

terms of what their reality is

and the potential for spread of people that are currently on the streets? >> yeah.

you're asking a really good question. I believe most people in

general -- the C.D.C. Guidelines are pretty good about what they recommend in

terms of guidelines around

shelters, homeless, housing. Observing just how much work it

takes to just do that

logistically -- and I have the opportunity to do that because I get to interact with people around other parts of the state.

I believe that san francisco is doing more than other parts of the state, and of course, there's more that we can do.

What I see as the biggest barrier is just having all the

components in place.

Just the rapid response and all

the things that we need to make

that successful, as well as

having options -- options for

sometimes either a -- a -- a

person is unable to go to a

hotel room for self-care for personal reasons or otherwise they don't want to go there, so we need to have many options that will accommodate the needs of the option.

I'm

I'm -- needs of the population.

I'm sorry.

I'm getting a text here.

>> Supervisor Haney:   I'm sorry. I'll let other people ask questions here. I know we're getting data regarding other populations,

but if our goal is to get

people into a place where they

can isolate or shelter in place or not have contact with other

people in that, it's not happening.

And the small movement of

people we've seen in shelters

and navigation centers, I haven't seen any improvement in

people who are homeless, so I just want to flag that as

something that needs your attention.

>> President Yee:   supervisor ronen?

>> Supervisor Ronen:   thank you.

I just wanted to follow up on a

little bit of the same topics that supervisor haney brought up. In terms of testing right now,

I have been trying to get the

entire division circle

navigation center, residents

and staff, tests for about

three weeks now, ever since the first person tested positive.

And it's just been one excuse after another, and they haven't been tested. And this morning, I learned in

another congregate -- well, in

an S.R.O.-like housing unit in

my district, that 25 people

tested right, and those individuals have separate

rooms, so they do share bathrooms, but not living

space, unlike division circle. Why haven't all of the

residents in shelters and

navigation centers been tested?

I just haven't received a

satisfactory answer from anyone about that yet.

>> you're asking a really good question.

I can tell you from -- from

where I sit, I haven't been involved in those specific decisions. What I can share with you is

our approach continues to

evolve, and casa quesada is a good example.

We're learning that mass detection and targeted screening is a good approach,

and you'll see more of that as we move forward?

I think what you're describing

is a direction that we're moving in, and as more testing becomes available, we're trying to figure out what is the best way to do that. So I think stay tuned.

You'll see changes as testing becomes more available and as our strategy becomes more

liberal in terms of testing.

>> Supervisor Ronen:   okay.

It's impossible to get -- I have so much respect for you,

Dr. Aragon, but I have yet to

get a satisfactory answer.

Everyone says oh, you'll wait and see, we don't feel it's necessary.

Hopefully, it'll move in that

direction, but it's been weeks now, and the staff and residents are terrified.

And in other congregate living facilities, we've found that it's very widespread, and I just can't get a clear answer from anyone.

I'm just wondering if you're

willing to issue an order -- I

think there should be testing

of every congregate living facility completely.

I do not -- it's not a resource issue at this point.

We have the materials so why wouldn't we do that? I'm just really confused and

just looking for a clear answer. Is it just that we don't want

to find out that so many people are testing positive because

then we don't have the resources to deal with it? I mean, what is the real reason

that we're not testing people in congregate settings? >> yeah. It's a real good question. I'll just tell you the way that

I see it. I just -- the way that I see it is one, we have the band width of all of the things that we're

trying to do, and as we're

prioritizing our activities, at

this moment, we haven't been able to do as much as we would like to do?

What I can tell you is that as testing improves -- as testing improves -- and I think you will see changing because we're really getting a better handle

on how to deal with the congregate living situations

and asymptomatic infections.

And I -- I -- I understand -- understand your frustration and

concern and perspective, which

is very valid, and I will personally communicate. And I know you haven't -- you

haven't -- you haven't gotten the answers you desire, but

I'll try and find that out for

you.

>> Supervisor Ronen:   I asked

the question to the mayor's assistant, and he said he would

get back to me, and he hasn't got back to me.

I'm asking our chief health

officer, the chief of staff for

the city and county of san

francisco and I cannot get a clear answer.

Meanwhile, the residents of the

division circle navigation center live in fear.

It sounds to me like what

you're saying it's an equipment and staff issue. I just have to get an answer.

It's really the most frustrating thing. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand what you're saying, and I think you'll see

as our -- our practice of how we're dealing with this

epidemic is evolving, and what you're describing is something that everybody is moving towards.

For example, in the jail, we're screening everybody that comes into the jail, and they found two persons that were positive,

so that's the direction that we're moving into is this focus

on asymptomatic screening. So you're absolutely right to ask that question, and I would

say that in general, that's where everybody is moving towards.

I think, as I said, as testing becomes more available, P.P.E. Becomes more available, we have

more staff, you'll see more testing.

>> Supervisor Ronen:   okay.

So moving on, the second

question is almost the same as

supervisor haney asked about the people on the streets. The situation on the streets,

it's getting worse, not better. In encampments that we've had

for years on the streets, we have more people.

We sort of encourage those

encampments by putting porta

porta potties by them. This is a population that we've

tried for years to get them

indoors, so you can imagine the

frustration of individuals that don't feel safe going outside their front door and the situation of people on the streets?

We hear that slowly but sure

you're getting to people on the streets, but none of us have

seen it.

All over the east side of the city, there are massive tent encampments all over again. They're not small, like they used to be, they're massive,

and those were incredibly

dangerous prior to covid-19. Now, they're just out of

control, and -- and -- and --

and it's -- it's -- it's just not that things are getting better, they're getting worse.

So can you talk a little bit

more about timelines and strategies and moving people off the street or a different strategy for the street?

>> you know, I think possibly

the best thing is that -- I'm

not working in that specific area.

As you know, our emergency operation center is very large. I'm not working specifically in

that area, but what I can do is

I can work with Dr. Colfax and

to bring -- maybe we'll use one

of these briefings to answer those questions directly so they can get you the information directly. That's probably the best way to get you the information you deserve.

>> Supervisor Ronen:   okay.

Thank you.

>> President Yee:   supervisor walton?

>> Supervisor Walton:   thank you, Dr. Aragon, for taking the time to answer questions this afternoon.

Just a couple of, like my

previous colleagues' questions. People told us they would be pulling people off the streets

and placing them into hotels? >> yeah. i do not have this information. Just to let you know, I learned about this meeting yesterday, and it all got arranged today,

but what I can do, I will follow up with these specific questions and work with Dr. Colfax to make sure that we have the information that

you're requesting.

>> Supervisor Walton:   well, I

know that you've been mentioning some of the conversation that has been happening at the state level, and the scientific response to what's happening. I know you've seen the latest

numbers in terms of who's been

contracting the virus kbi zip by zip code. Half of the cases are in my district, and the other half are in areas where we have the most vulnerable populations. Do you believe that mass testing in these zip codes should be taking place immediately? >> I think what's going to

happen is -- is that you will

see, we're -- we're -- right

now, we're adopting the

guidelines from the state on testing, and there is a component -- what I will do this evening is I will send you

the guidelines, and there's definitely a component around asymptomatic testing.

I think we're going to have to

do more in the areas that are impacted.

I think the challenge is -- you know about some of these challenges.

In some ways, it's easier to

focus on the congregate living situations. we know, for example, in the bayview, the mission, we have a lot of families that live in

really crowded conditions, so we have to figure out how we work with that -- those people that are exposed to crowded living conditions, as well as

the people who are exposed to

crowding and in congregate conditions.

We're it tending to focus on those that are in congregate

because we know that more people can get exposed, so I think the longer term strategy

that you'll see evolving is we

want to have low barrier testing. We want to improve our surveillance system, and then, we're going to be extending --

we're going to be starting by testing asymptomatic persons who are close contacts because

that's where the biggest risk is.

So that whole strategy is

really developing around that

testing and containment.

>> Supervisor Walton:   well, as san francisco chief medical officer, I want to ask you is

it your opinion that we should begin mass testing in areas

where we see a disproportionate amount of covid-19 cases?

>> that's a very interesting question.

I spent a lot of time thinking

about this issue.

I think we need to come back

with the state guidelines and

our impact in those areas and

how it impacts the testing.

>> Supervisor Walton:   I

wouldn't belabor the point, but

I will get with you offline

regarding that because we are

suffering in disproportionate areas, and we need to step up

in areas that we can and prevent the spread of the virus. I know that asymptomatic

testing is one way we can do

that so we can address some of

these disproportionalities. Also, by chance, do you have an

update on the number of covid deaths by district? Do you have the zip codes?

>> no, I don't have those. I don't have those with me, no.

But I -- I -- I was listening

in early on, and I know that's of interest.

>> Supervisor Walton:   and so my last question, just -- and I

sent an e-mail to Dr. Colfax,

leadership of some of our key

city departments, H.S.A.,

H.S.H., to know the key things that are happening since we

know that a large number of

contracted covid cases exists in our homeless population

areas, I will be following up

with you to figure out what you

think we need to do to combat

these disparities.

You know how much we've been

struggling in getting people

out of these places and get people safe.

I can't understand how we

haven't done a better job of getting that done, and I just want to make sure that you understand that this comes from

a place of trying to actually

save lives and to stop the

spread versus trying to

perpetrate a bigger problem in

our vulnerable communities. I thank you for your time, and I hope you can bring back some

of your colleagues so we can get some concrete responses. >> yeah. i want to thank everybody for your time.

We -- there's always ways that we can improve.

We're commit -- we're commit -- we're committed to improving, and part of that commitment is

going to be -- is going to be sailing up so we can deliver on

our shared goals of saving lives.

>> President Yee:   supervisor safai?

>> Supervisor Safai:   thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you, Dr. Aragon, for your time today.

My question revolves around is your presentation over?

Because I do have a question, but you're kind of focused on phase one. Were you going to get into phase two and talk about what's some of the things that you're

going to do in terms of in your

next health order and what guidance you might have because I have a specific question about phase one, but I also wanted to know if you were going to talk about phase two

and some of the next steps. >> yeah. What's happening at the regional level is we've been

reviewing some of the publicly available documents and reviewing frameworks for how to

think about these different phrases.

In the bay area, we haven't

started talking about the specifics of phase two. There are some people

nationally who began to

restratify the different risks of opening up the economy.

This is from johns hopkins, so you can begin to have access to the same information that we have. Basically, I think it's going to be really important for the

state to really step up and

provide some leadership and guidance. We want to take advantage of the best science, the best

available information as opposed to each count sort of

doing it on their own without really taking advantage of all the expertise that's available in the state.

So yeah, I don't have anything

specific around phase two, but

we can share with you the

documents around what we're

doing that revolves around what

we should be doing in phase two.

>> Supervisor Safai:   okay.

My questions have to do with phase one.

This has to do with S.N.F. Facilities.

I have a S.N.F. Facility in district one.

They've doing that as a way to continue to, as you talked

about in terms of our treatment

phase, ensuring that we have

I.C.U.S, acute care, hospital

space, in case that there was a surge, so I understand the

thinking behind that. The only thing is that it doesn't necessarily -- if that

is an area that you're concerned about additional

outbreaks, and then, you're

moving covid-positive patients into that facility, can you talk about the thinking kind of behind that.

And then, the other thing, on

the point of asymptomatic

testing, you know, why wait until there could potentially

be an outbreak in this facility? Because right now, the guidelines are only test people

who show symptoms, but you've

only had one case in that facility, and it would be good

to, you know, in many peoples' opinion to defendant test -- even though

it's just a snapshot, you might

get an idea of someone and intervene in advance before

there could potentially be an outbreak in that facility?

So I know that's a lot of

things, but we're going to have a town haul

ll in the jewish community thursday night. They're trying to do everything they can to be as safe as they

could be, but I know there's a lot of discussion around how they can have testing on-site

when there's covid positive cases. >> yeah. In long-term care facilities, you're going to begin to see a

lot more testing, especially of staff, because what happens is

staff bring the infections into the facilities.

>> Supervisor Safai:   right, and I think that's what happened in the case of the person that tested positive. >> yeah. You're going to be -- like I

said, the strategy's really evolving for all of these different populations.

Long-term care facilities is --

tend to be a closed ecosystem

with the exception of staff that come in and out.

>> Supervisor Safai:   yeah. >> so you're right, you're going to see more testing. what happens is when a facility

or part of a facility commits

to testing patients who are

covid positive, what they do is they cohort those patients, they put them all together, and that way, they're able to dedicate the service with the best P.P.E. The other thing that's

beginning to happen is you'll

begin to see people, staff, who

have recovered from covid or tested positive, they'll begin to take care of that unit.

So you'll begin to see the specialization, and you'll begin to see facilities

specialize in taking care or part-time taking care of patients.

So relying on symptoms is not sufficient. If you relied on symptoms, you will Miss Most of the patients.

>> Supervisor Safai:   so when --

so when will we see -- I mean, you're saying you're going to

see -- there is a case already, they've tested that individual. So when are we going to see an

increase in the testing,

because this is the only licensed long-term care in the city.

There's a lot of family and patients of existing people that are concerned about this.

As I said, we're going to have this in two days.

It would be wonderful if we can

get increased testing in that facility as soon as possible.

>> yeah. Let me -- one thing we can do is, we do have a team that

focused on long-term care

facilities, and it would be good to have one of the people

that focuses in these area explain how they're focusing on long-term care facilities.

So I can make sure that you're connected with our key person

because I think it would be

good -- basically, they're

spending all their time on this topic.

>> Supervisor Safai:   okay. >> actually, I'm being called by the health commission right now because I'm supposed to be there to report to the health commission.

Is that going to be okay?

>> President Yee:   well, if you have to -- I mean, if you have

to do that, we can't hold you here, and this was, as you said, fairly last minute.

We'll try to -- moving forward, I mean, I think this is useful, and thank you, supervisor

peskin, for making this happen. I'll try and figure out a way in which we can have something

more regular so we can sort of anticipate, and I'll speak to

you in terms of what's a better time during meeting, after the meeting, that type of thing. >> yeah. Let me know sort of ahead of

time, so if there's -- if there's a subject matter expert, I can get the information that you're asking for, so that way, you'll get more complete answers.

>> President Yee:   so if you

have to leave, then, I'm sorry, supervisor preston and supervisor stefani, I'm going to skip you, but when we do

this again, you'll be first in line. Supervisor peskin, would you like to wrap it up?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you, Mr. President.

i would like to wrap it up, and I would like to agendaize this

as another briefing that the public can watch after next

tuesday's board meeting or have

this be an item on next tuesday's board meeting,

whatever the council prefers.

I think this has been incredibly productive. I'm sorry.

I had additional questions, as I know supervisor preston and

stefani did, as well. This has been highly helpful,

and I would like us to continue to have these discussions

publicly, and would like to do so next tuesday with your indulgence, Mr. President.

>> President Yee:   yes, we'll figure it out.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   okay.

Thank you, sir. >> okay. Thank you, everyone. Good luck.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Thank you very much. Colleagues and anybody else

that's listening, thanks for staying tuned, and as I mentioned, we will figure out a way to do this.

So I'm going to go ahead and

end this portion at this time, so I will -- if you want to get

off now, that would be fine.

Since this is not a meeting-meeting, I'm not going

to hammer down, but say thank

you for getting the work done.

>> Clerk:   thank you, Mr. President.

>> Supervisor Haney:   thank you, everyone.